Trowel
Unknown Artist
The excavator interpreted this length of hard wood as a mason's trowel, probably used for laying bricks. It is lightly spatulate at one end and was found encrusted with mud and straw.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927
c. 2124-1504 B.C.
Wood
1.2 in
27.3.71
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2020
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