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)
17817C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group. From one burial. (A) Cylinder seal, dark steatite: goddess on a goose, crescent on staff, snake emblem (?) and worshipper (naked) holding a full libation jug. (B) A few beads, gold balls, small, steatite, lentoid, carnelian ball and lapis fly. (C) Copper axe. [drawing]
12680A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper axe Type XXII. [B] (2) Copper reticule containing manicure tools on ring. Traces of matting on reticule. [C] (3) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli. Bird headed man and rampant animals. [D] (4) Beads - Worn round forehead? 2 carnelian bugles - 1 lapis lentoid. [E] (5) Stone bowl. White limestone. [Type] XXV. [drawing]
12640A	30-12-295	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper axe. [B] (2) Cylinder seal. Shell. Poor condition. Rampant animals including an antelope and a leopard.
12710A	(none)	1929,1017.544	(none)	Group: [A] 1) Copper axe. Type XXI. [B-C] 2) Silver wire earrings 2 1/2 spiral coils. [D] 3) Copper pin straight Type II with elongated tang.
12711I	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Copper dagger. Type II E. [B] (2) Copper reticule. [C] (3) Stone bowl. Calcite. Type LI. [drawing 2:5] [D] (4) Carnelian bugle beads - three probably worn round forehead. [E] (5) Stone vase. White calcite. Type LXXXIV. [drawing 3:5] [F] (6) Silver earring. 1 1/2 spiral coils lunate ended. [G] (7) Copper vase. Cylindrical. Type LVII. [drawing 2:5] [H] (8)Copper pin. Type V B with lapis ball head. [I] (9) Copper axe. Type XX. [J] (10) Bowl greyish stone. Broken and rivetted in antiquity. Type XVIII. [K] (11) Beads small lapis and silver double conoids. Carnelian lentoids. [drawing 1:5] [L] (12) Cylinder seal. Lentoid shaped. 2 registers. Gazelles (?). Lapis lazuli.
12707K	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] (1) Stone vase, white calcite. For type see field ntoes. [Type] LXXVI. [B] (2) Stone bowl, white calcite. Broken badly. Type XIX. [C] (3) Copper lamp normal type cut as a shell. L. 140mm. L. of spout 100mm with ring at end for suspension. [D] (4) Beads. Carnelian rings probably a bracelet with thin silver wire bracelets elliptical, broken and decayed. [E] (5) Silver wire finger ring. [F] (6) Frontlet of beads. 1 lapis bugle and 2 carnelian bugles [G] (7) Cylinder seal. Shell. Much decayed. [H] (8) Cylinder seal. Lapis lazuli originally suspended on a silver wire. Subject. [I] (9) Copper strainer. Corroded with it. Normal type. [J] (10) A copper tumbler. Straight sided [Type] LVII. [K] (11) Copper axe type XXI. [L] (12) Copper holdfasts. Croquet hook type. [drawing] [M] (13) Copper pin. Type V B. Lapis ball head corroded with: [N] 14) Copper dagger type II B.
12709A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Group: [A] 1) Copper axe. Poor condition. Type XXI. [B] 2) Copper dagger. Type II F. [C] 3) Copper pin. Lapis ball head. [D-G] 4) Four models of boats - baked clay bellums with curved prows and sterns. [H] 5) Baked clay goblet with broad stand. Broken. Type.
16663	(none)	(none)	(none)	Iron axe. Socketed: end of socket broken. Socket runs horizontally through ends of blade. [drawing 1:1]
12478	30-12-579	(none)	(none)	Silver axe. Type thus: AB(new). [drawing]
8782	(none)	(none)	(none)	Thin flat blade badly bent. Broken in two pieces. Abnormally long blade. [drawing]
11986	30-12-320	(none)	(none)	Two Copper Axes. Corroded together. Both type XVII. (the latter tip missing).
11482A	30-12-298	(none)	(none)	Two copper objects. (A) knife blade [drawing] (B) Reticule.
(none)	31-16-480	(none)	(none)	unknown
11988.2	(none)	1929,1017.557	(none)	[.1-.2] Copper Axe (broken but complete) Type XVII but unusually long & narrow.
11988.1	30-12-297	(none)	(none)	[.1-.2]Copper Axe (broken but complete) Type XVII but unusually long & narrow.
19141B	35-1-411	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze adzes. Type 1
10713A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] 2 Flat Copper Axe Blades Short Turned over tangs only one intact [drawing] Type IV
10713B	(none)	(none)	B17277	[A-B] 2 Flat Copper Axe Blades Short Turned over tangs only one intact [drawing] Type IV
19139B	35-1-418	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze axes. Type A. 1
308B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Bronze, molten lumps. In B is embedded a broken bronze axe head, clearly part of the kaj [slag?] beign melted down.
13524A	31-17-190	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Axe and 1 copper earring, single coil. Type XIX.
13524B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Axe and 1 copper earring, single coil. Type XIX.
19139A	35-1-419	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Bronze axes. Type A. 1
19139C	35-1-414	(none)	(none)	[A-C] Bronze axes. Type A. 1
19140A	35-1-416	(none)	(none)	[A-E] Bronze axes. Type A. 3