499632 Ibex Whetstone Handle, 1100-900 BC (cast bronze) by Iranian School; 22.3 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: For millennia, whetstones have been used for sharpening various kinds of metal blades. They were particularly important in Luristan, a center that produced bronze blades. ); Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art on the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary; Iranian, out of copyright.