Fragment №2 of an ornamented dagger

The item consists of five (six) [Petrin, 1974] fragments which make the base part of dagger. Only handle is abscent. The dagger has a slightly curved along the longitudinal axis shape. On the sides there are slotted grooves in which rectangular and square quartzite inserts remain partly. The dagger is covered with an ornament which consists of one row of holes made on engraved line previously. 

Material: costal bone (bison?)
Sizes: 270*42*10 mm
Region: Western Siberia (Foothills of Southern Siberia)
Archeological culture: Upper Paleolithic
Site: Chernoozerie II
Storage location:

Omsk State Historical museum 

Inventory number: OMK 9675

 

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