Small bronze chisel
Unidentified Swiss Lake Dwellers maker
Bronze Age
Bronze
Overall: 1 3/8 × 3/16 × 3/16 in. (3.5 × 0.5 × 0.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Acquired by exchange from the Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
163.9.14867
Geography
Place Found: Switzerland, Europe
Period
3000-2000 BCE
Object Name
Artifact
Research Area
Archaeology
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Dr. Victor Gross and Arnold Henry Guyot (1807-1884); Dr. Glenn Lowell Jepsen (1903-1974), Department of Geology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; acquired by the present collection in Exchange no. 127, 1963.
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