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)
15148	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Socketed. Hammered. Broken.
15314	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. With part of wooden haft left, late form of cast axe with ring socket. [Type] A11 [drawing]
15788	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Axe. Socketed. Type I.
16663	(none)	(none)	(none)	Iron axe. Socketed: end of socket broken. Socket runs horizontally through ends of blade. [drawing 1:1]
17802	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. The mark of the hafting is very clear on the blade. Type (S6) [drawing]
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]
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]
17889	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type S8. [drawing]
18586	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper (?) Axe. Late cemetery type. ? Proper to Vol. IV. [drawing]
18695	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze axe. [drawing]
18904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type S. 16
18906	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type S.6.
18934	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. Type S. 6.
18941	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axe. blade. Type S. 13
19155	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 5.
19156	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 6.
19157	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 12
19158	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S 16
19159	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper axes. Type S.17.
19199	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze axe. Type _ (new type for the cemetery). The socket decorated with rope pattern.
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]
9191B	(none)	1928,1009.306	(none)	[A]Copper Knife, [B]axe & [C]reticule all corroded together Knife straight-sided thus: [drawing] [Type] II axe, broken, thus: [drawing] [type] X
13524B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Axe and 1 copper earring, single coil. Type XIX.
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.
(none)	(none)	(none)	B17274	(none)