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Ibex Whetstone Handle
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About this work
For millennia, whetstones have been used for sharpening various kinds of metal blades. They were particularly important in Luristan, a center that produced bronze blades.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineIbex Whetstone Handle, 1100–900 BCE. Iran, Luristan. Bronze, cast; overall: 22.3 cm (8 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, 1965.554
