About the Artwork
Whetstone with Mountain Goat Handle
1000 - 650 BCE
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Iranian
Luristan
Bronze and stone
Overall: 9 1/4 × 7/8 × 2 1/4 inches (23.5 × 2.2 × 5.7 cm)
Metalwork
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Founders Society Purchase, Activities Committee Fund
67.163
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Provenance
1967-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 47, no. 2 (1968): pp. 32-33 (ill.).
Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, pp. 98-100 [similar objects discussed and dated; mentions the importance of these pieces as bronze weapons required more whetting than iron], pls. 11, 12, (fig. 104-107), (ill.).
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Luristan, Iranian, Whetstone with Mountain Goat Handle, 1000 - 650 BCE, bronze and stone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Activities Committee Fund, 67.163.
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