pick-axe
- Museum number
- 135142
- Description
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Iron pick-axe: with a vertical copper alloy socket, closed at the top, and a long, thin iron blade. There is a stylised bird's head on the front of the socket beneath the blade and a projection at the back with a square hole. There are two circular holes at the bottom of the socket, presumably for attachment of the axehead to a haft.
- Production date
- 600BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres
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Length: 20.25 centimetres
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Weight: 297.50 grammes
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Thickness: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- cf. BM135855; Bunker, Chatwin and Farkes, 'Animal Style' Art from East to West, fig.34 on p.49; Mikhail Geyaznov, South Siberia (London 1969), pl.136; Sulimirski, The Sarmatians, p.44, fig.12.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2013 22 Mar-3 Nov, Lokschuppen Rosenheim, Germany, 'Alexander the Great'
2006 7 Mar-11 Jun, Barcelona, Fundacion La Caixa, 'L'imperi Oblidat'
2005-2006 Sept-Jan, London, BM, 'Forgotten Empire'
- Acquisition date
- 1969
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 135142
- Registration number
- 1969,0719.1
