Axes

This category includes objects with an edge, the head mounted parallel to the handle. It can be used to shape, split, or cut wood.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
11436	(none)	1929,1017.556	(none)	Copper axe. [drawing]
11574	(none)	1929,1017.541	(none)	Copper axe. [drawing]
18367	33-35-78	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. [drawing]
7987	(none)	1928,1009.211	(none)	Copper axe. [drawing] normal type.
11915	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Axe. [Drawing] Type A10 (New)
12190	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Axe. [Type] XIX.
12222	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Axe. [Type] XIX.
11446	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Axe. [Type] [drawing]
11454	(none)	1929,1017.550	(none)	Copper Axe? Crude type. Type S19. [drawing 1:1]
8789	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe? Flat blade. Thin copper with short turn over. [drawing]
19157	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 12
19158	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 16
19155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 5.
19156	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 6.
19159	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S.17.
9680	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Battle-axe Having on one side a single long spike, on the other 3 short spikes [drawing] TYPE__
7876	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper blade ? Axe. Straight-sided : cf. U.7877. Bent-over end missing.
7866	(none)	(none)	B17459	Copper chopper. Thin metal: convex cutting end: other end tapered and curved round for attachment. [drawing]
8769	(none)	1928,1009.221	(none)	Copper hoe? or axe? [drawing] not to be published. Crescent shaped - single piece of metal with a V shaped shaft for receiving a wooden handle. 2 rivets, one on each side of the opening keep the shaft firm. If the object was a hoe it had a handle coming down vertically into the apex of the V, if an axe the handle was horizontal to it.
11842A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head.
10025	(none)	(none)	(none)	Electrum Axe Normal type [drawing] adze A3 (new)
10018	(none)	(none)	(none)	Gold Axe Double lunate type Made of a rather low grade electrum [drawing] Type A15
17912G	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group from one burial. (A) [A and J] 2 Gold frontlets. (B) [B and K]2 tubular gold bracelets (C) Gold earring, spirally coiled with lunate ends (D) [D and L] 2 silver bracelets, single wire (E) Cylinder seal, lapis lazuli, introductory scene, 2 standing figures and seated deity; crescent above god; (F) Necklace of gold balls between carnelian bugles, flat lentoid chalcedones, carnelian barrels, carnelian ball, agate lentoid, green chalcedone bugles. (G) Axe, type XVIII, [H-I] Copper objects [These are drawn on the field catalog card, but not assigned subdivisions by Woolley][drawing]
11598B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. [A](1) Cylinder Seal, lapis, man, lion & gazelle]. [B](2) Copper Axe Type XVII. [C](3) A few beads of lapis and copper.
17813J	(none)	1935,0113.408	(none)	Group. From one burial. (A) [A and K-L] 3 gold frontlets. (B) Twisted gold hair-ribbon. (C) [C and M] Two gold hair-rings, spirally coiled with lunate ends, with one of them [N] a silver ring. (D) Beads: a string of very small fluted gold balls and carnelian balls and one very thin lapis bugle with gold caps. (E) Beads: gold balls, agate, carnelian, marble and jasper; long bugles, flattened lentoids, disks and lentoids. (F) [F and O] Two gold bracelets, of thin gold bent over copper wire. (G) Silver bracelet, plain wire. (H) [H and I] Copper bracelets, 2, plain wire. (J) Copper axe, thus: [reference to drawing] a copy of the old type but not cast: hammered and the socket made by bending. Type S10. [drawing]