EditorialPolished axe-head, ca. 1800 BCE The Neolithic period is characterized by the advent of ground and polished axes and adze heads. Polishing the stone tool by grinding a fine abrasive against it gave the axe a smoother cutting edge and greater strength. P...
EditorialPolished axe-head, ca. 1800 BCE The Neolithic period is characterized by the advent of ground and polished axes and adze heads. Polishing the stone tool by grinding a fine abrasive against it gave the axe a smoother cutting edge and greater strength. P...
EditorialA group of friends listen to loud music while polishing their cars in central Tiraspol, in the breakaway region of Transnistria, May 5, 2022. (Cristian Movila/The New York Times)
EditorialBox. Steel, bronze; polishing, chasing, faceting, carving, silver damascening, gilding. Russia, Tula. Second half of the 18th century. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialLacquered toilet box, Han dynasty, c206 BC-c220. This box is painted with cloud scrolls and inlaid with silver. Fantastic heavenly creatures are visible among the lines of the painted scrolls. The manufacture of lacquer pieces required several distinct...
EditorialA small earthenware bottle with a flat bottom. The wall runs concave upwards and merges into an elongated oval body with a high concave neck. A vertical handle is attached to the shoulder and neck. The edge is outwards and is immature. Manufactured on ...
EditorialA dark gray jug with ear and cylindrical neck with three 'twisted curves'. The belly shows vertical polishing., Crockery, pottery, H 12.2 cm, D 12.1 cm, L incl. Ear 14.6 cm, Iron Age 1200-600 BC, Iran.
EditorialAn egg-shaped stone flattened on one side, perhaps used as a polishing stone., Stone, polishing stone, stone, limestone (?), L 8.5 cm, W 7 cm H 5.5 cm, Palestine.
EditorialThe almost complete, upper half of a turntable. Some fragments have been broken off on the side. The stone shows polishing, the result of intensive use., Tools, stone, basalt, H 7.7 cm, D 14.0 cm, Bronze Age, Iron Age 3000-500 BC, Palestine.
EditorialA biconic pot on a slightly convex surface and with a slightly protruding edge. Polishing stripes visible., Crockery, earthenware, H 12.9 cm, D 17.1 cm, D neck 11.1 cm, Iron Age, Iran.
EditorialA painted pot with a disk base. The body is convex and passes a nod in a high concave neck. The edge is bent outwards and finished undiluted and rounded. On the shoulders are two upright triangular knob handles or polishing traces (thin strips). There ...
Editorialsnake head, inscription, Basa, The head with the front part of the body of a snake. Well finished and polished, the back, head and eyes clearly indicated. The mouth is indicated and a v-mark is placed underneath. The text has been applied to the belly....
EditorialGemme of brown-black sardonyx, with an image of a portrait of young Octavian and symbols, to the right. The round head of a little boy, shown with short, straight hair, is flanked by ears of corn, held by two clinged right hands under the head., Gem, i...
EditorialAn egg shaped stone with flattened edges probably used as polishing stone., Polishing stone, stone, hematite (?), L 2.9 cm, D 1.7 cm, Palestine.
EditorialAn earthenware bowl or bowl with a vertical ear. The inside is decorated in four areas with inward-going polishing lines, crockery, earthenware, H 4.5 cm, D 16.9 cm, Parthian Period 247 BC. - 224 AD, Iran.
EditorialA fragment of a bowl with polishing marks, broken and restored, made on a fast turntable, crockery, earthenware, H 6.8 cm, 800-539 BC, Jordan.