- Object Name:
- Mortar and Grinder
- Place Made:
- Southern Levant
- Date:
- 50 BCE–70 CE
- Medium:
- Basalt: ground and incised
- Dimensions:
- Overall: 5 3/4 × 12 × 11 1/2 in. (14.6 × 30.5 × 29.2 cm) Mortar: 4 5/16 × 12 × 11 1/2 in. (11 × 30.5 × 29.2 cm) Grinder: 2 5/8 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (6.7 × 6.4 × 6.4 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Betty and Max Ratner Collection
- Accession Number:
- 1982-24a-b
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The southern Levant extended roughly to the borders of Lebanon and Syria on the north, the Red Sea on the south, the Jordanian eastern desert in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea on the west.
Information may change as a result of ongoing research.