Flake, knife or scraper, from Tell Brak, Syria

An image of Tool. Flake, knife or scraper. Find Spot: Tell Brak, Syria. Obsidian, length 0.065 m, circa 5000-4001 B.C.

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Tool. Flake, knife or scraper. Find Spot: Tell Brak, Syria. Obsidian, length 0.065 m, circa 5000-4001 B.C.

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Accession Number: ANE.11.1966
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 70.55kB
Exposure time: 1/15
ISO Speed: 125
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:03:19 17:29:23

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antiquity BC Fitz_ANT flake obsidian scraper scraping strygil Syrian tool Turkish

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