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Circumcision knife
Lost Art-ID
626362
Artist / Creator
Title
Circumcision knife
Dating
1701/1800
Object type
Group of reported objects
Material / Technique
Metal (Steel) ; Metal (Silver) ; Gemstone / damascened ; mounted
Width
1.90 cm
Depth
1.50 cm
Length
18.30 cm
Inventory number
MARKK 29.1:444
Description
Single-edged blade with a rounded point. Handle made of red-coloured stone, mounted at the end with an angular silver fitting with an openwork pattern and a knob. Metal connecting piece between handle and blade. Dated around 1700 according to records by Prof Stettiner (MKG, 1927).
Old object number: AB 7671 (Altonaer Museum).
Provenance
[creator not known here] | [provenance gap] | n.d. Gesellschaft für Jüdische Volkskunde, donation | 1913 Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, loan | [provenance gap] | n.d. Altonaer Museum, n.d. | 1991 Museum für Völkerkunde Hamburg, transfer | 2017 Museum am Rothenbaum Hamburg (MARKK), renamed
Further information on the provenance history of this object / collection: external link
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Contact
MUSEUM AM ROTHENBAUM (MARKK)
Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Rothenbaumchaussee 64
20148 Hamburg
Germany
Homepage
Contact
JANA C. REIMER
Position
Kuratorin West- und Zentralasien, Nordafrika und Altägypten / Provenienzforschung NS-verfolgungsbedingt entzogenes Kulturgut
Phone
+4940428879–551
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