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Bone Stylus

Bone Stylus

1–400

Medium: Carved
Dimensions: 8.55 cm (3 3/8 in.)
Genre: Artists' tools
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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Circular-sectioned bone stylus. The pointed end for writing is cone shaped. The shaft tapers from the pointed end to the other end, where it has a sphere-shaped finial, which is somewhat flat on one side, for erasing.