Axes
This category includes objects with an edge, the head mounted parallel to the handle.
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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| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 8034 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Type XI [drawing] Blade of the usual type, but instead of a solid socket the metal is simply bent round the haft and welded, the sides brought over the two edges of the blade & hammered in. When found, there were remains of coarse matting on either side of the blade : it might have been merely wrapped in matting, but it also might have had a matting sheath. [drawing 1:1] |
| 8022 | (none) | (none) | B17416 | Copper axe. Normal type thus: [drawing] The socket split and broken. [Type] XIX | |
| 7987 | (none) | 1928,1009.211 | (none) | Copper axe. [drawing] normal type. | |
| 7931 | (none) | (none) | B17411 | Axe Head. Copper. | |
| 7928 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Axe head. Copper. Slinder type. [drawing] not to scale. [type] XIV |
| 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] | |
| 7857 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Slender type. Socket broken in two lengthwise and part missing. |
| 7856 | (none) | (none) | B17418 | Copper axe. Rather slender example. One side of the socket has decayed and broken away exposing remains of wooden haft. | |
| 7855 | (none) | 1928,1009.212 | (none) | Copper axe. Lower part of socket broken away, much of the wood left in the socket. XIX. [drawing] |
| 7852 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. rather slender and light type. XIX. [drawing] |
| 7851 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axe. Thickly covered with corrosion but intact. [drawing] |
| 7134 | (none) | (none) | B16431 | Adze head. Bronze. Cf. U.6137 Larsa type. E. | |
| 6927 | (none) | (none) | B16432 | Adze head. Bronze? Upper and lower portion of handle ribbed. No traces of wood found in handle hole. In text: Kassite period (7) and fig. E. [drawing 1:2] | |
| 59 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze axe. [drawing 1:2] |
| 37 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Axe, bronze. Broken. [drawing 1:2] |
| 3341 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Axe head. Bronze: fine specimen in excellent condition. Sketch 1:2. [drawing 1:2] |
| 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. |
| 30-12-305 | (none) | (none) | (none) | (none) | |
| 19199 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Bronze axe. Type _ (new type for the cemetery). The socket decorated with rope pattern. |
| 19159 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axes. Type S.17. |
| 19158 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axes. Type S 16 |
| 19157 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axes. Type S 12 |
| 19156 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axes. Type S 6. |
| 19155 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Copper axes. Type S 5. |
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