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SHM 20563 MMLur 090 :: axe

Object description: Cast. Lugged flat axe. Long flat end, widens to points at middle, concave shape to outward swung cutting edge, rectangular in section. Solid.

Data elements
References (2)

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 090

Serie nummer

331

MM Lur

Object

axe

Object, Swedish

yxa

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Copper

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast. Lugged flat axe. Long flat end, widens to points at middle, concave shape to outward swung cutting edge, rectangular in section. Solid.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

2500-1400 BC

Name - Acquired from

Arne, Ture J:son (1879-05-07 - 1965-08-02), archaeologist

Description: Ture Arne Johnson, born May 7, 1879 in Söderköping, died 2 August 1965, Swedish archaeologist.
PhD in Uppsala in 1914 with the thesis "La Suède et l'Orient, études sur les relations archéologiques de la Suède et de l'Orient pendant l'Age des Vikings". Arne's field of work was mainly the contacts between Scandinavia and the early Russia.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Statens Historiska museum

Source - http: www.historiska.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Event - Was Present At

The Swedish archaeological expedition to Iran (1932-1933)

Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Bass 1986 fig 32 KW: 218, Ulu Burun L: c 19,5; max. W: c6;

Pulak 1988 fig 11kw 587 L: c 18, date 1400 BC; Moorey & Schweizer 1974 Lugged flat axe, Kayseri, Turkey (possibly Kultepe? Sir John Evans Collection) Mid 3 M, Punarbasi Gol group, thick copper. Medium quality tin bronzes at end of Early Bronze Age in Turkey Late 3 M BC;

Blinkenberg 1931 Lindos pl. 3 no 27, bronze L: 0,15, Egyptian/Mycenaean period;

Wulsin 1932 Turang Tepe L: 15 westmound burials late 1200- 1000;

Masson & Sariandi 1972 fig 20 p.78 Kara-Depe 3000-2500 BC metal;

Miron 1992 pp. 30-35 LB pl. II: 186 Hazor

Cf/collection: Coghlan 1975 p. 612 fig 406B Chisel.

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