- Object Title: Polishing Stone
- Object Name: Stone
- Object Number: 955.165.80
- Description: Small sub-rectangular polishing stone, oval in shape, pale brown in colour, made from hard limestone. This rubbing stone has smooth and shiny surfaces. The tool can be fit between the fingers. It might be used to polish or to rub small surface, floor, or small artifacts. The surfaces are flat in the center and convex on the sides area, shiny and smooth. Evidence of used are clear on the flat and convex areas and the edges.
- Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.2 x 1.9 cm
- Material: Hard limestone
- Geography: Excavated at Tell al-Sultan (Jericho), Palestine
- Period: Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Period
- Date: c. 7600-6000 BCE
- Field Collector: Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon; British School of Archaeology; American Schools of Oriental Research
- Museum Collector: Dr. A. Douglas Tushingham
- 1953 Archaeological Context: JPF8.10
- Excavation Number: 417
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