Awl
87-39-1196
Location: On Display in the Ancient Food & Flavor
From: Switzerland | Bern Canton | Lake Moosseedorf | Moosseedorf
Curatorial Section: European
| Object Number | 87-39-1196 |
| Current Location | Ancient Food & Flavor - On Display |
| Culture | Neolithic | Swiss Lake Dweller |
| Provenience | Switzerland | Bern Canton | Lake Moosseedorf | Moosseedorf |
| Period | Neolithic |
| Date Made | 4300-2450 BCE |
| Section | European |
| Materials | Deer Bone |
| Description | Beautifully pointed and polished. "Bone awl, with the mark of the saw at an end. These bones of the deer were generally sawed into lengthways and then split." "Kell Flaflban' Mosbjuodonfl" (?) written on object. Beautifully pointed and polished. "Bone awl, with the mark of the saw at an end. These bones of the deer (cervus capraeolus) were generally sawed into lengthways and then split." (VB 1939) Bone. Beautifully pointed and polished. From radius of deer. (HNW 1933) |
| Height | 0.9 cm |
| Length | 10.3 cm |
| Width | 1.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1987 |
| Other Number | L-37-1196 - Old Museum Number | 24 - Original Number |
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