adze
- Museum number
- 128766
- Description
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Copper alloy shaft-hole adze-head; cast with engraved decoration on the blade.
- Production date
- 2500BC-1500BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.00 - 2.20 centimetres (interior of socket)
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Height: 4.50 centimetres
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Height: 1.75 inches
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Length: 13.40 centimetres
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Weight: 303 grammes
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Width: 3.90 centimetres (of blade)
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Width: 5.50 inches
- Curator's comments
- Inscribed examples of this type are known from Susa and Mesopotamia.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-6 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN/4/6
1994 BM, G49/IRAN
1975-ca 1990 Jul-, BM, Iranian Room [IR], case 1/11
BM, Iranian Room [IR], c/2.
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition of this collection was highlighted in the 'Annual Report of the General Progress of the Museums for the year 1936' (BM BM (Natural History) 1937, pp. 10-11) as "A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., and for the most part from known sites; specially selected to illustrate periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the collection".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 128766
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.156
