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SHM 20563 MMLur 103 :: Axe

Object description: Cast. Cylindrical shaft with four straight ribs at back terminating in four long conical points (spikes) and joined by vertical ridge near butt. Upper and lower ribs form the top and bottom quadruple ridged collars of the shaft and extend to upper and lower edge of blade as reinforcement. The two central ribs extend as ridges on shaft and onto blade neck. Upper and lower edges strengthened by thickening ridge. Upper edge slopes downwards and lower curves sharply round to form broad, very slightly convex cutting edge.

Data elements
References (2)

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 103

Serie nummer

344

MM Lur

103

Object

Axe

Object, Swedish

Yxa

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Exhibitions

Exhibition 1999

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast. Cylindrical shaft with four straight ribs at back terminating in four long conical points (spikes) and joined by vertical ridge near butt. Upper and lower ribs form the top and bottom quadruple ridged collars of the shaft and extend to upper and lower edge of blade as reinforcement. The two central ribs extend as ridges on shaft and onto blade neck. Upper and lower edges strengthened by thickening ridge. Upper edge slopes downwards and lower curves sharply round to form broad, very slightly convex cutting edge.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

1100-800 BC

Period

Luristan Iron I-II

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

Exhibition - Previously

Främre Orienten

Description: Near Eastern Collections
Among the highlights in the Near Eastern collection, are the Bronze Age objects found by professor T Arne, during the Swedish excavations of 1932 in Shah Tepe in northeastern Iran.
The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities also has one of the world's largest and finest collections of ancient Persian bronzes from Bronze- and Iron Age Luristan(2700 BC – 650 BC.
From Mesopotamia the museum has a representative collection of cuneiform tablets and seals from Sumerian and Babylonian times.
A relief from the Northwest palace in Nimrud, built by the Assyrian king Assurnasirpal II and dated to 860 BC, can be seen at the museum. Across the relief is a long inscription that tells the story of the king and his achievements.
The Englishman Austin Henry excavated the relief in the 1840’s in Iraq and presented it to Queen Josephine of Sweden. She in turn donated it to The National Museum of Fine Arts in Stockholm for its opening in 1866.A copy of the original relief is on display for the time being at the museum. (www.medelhavsmuseet.se, 2010-09-08)
The exhibition is located in room 9.
Time - Start: 20002000 [?]
Time - End: 20122012 [?]

Exhibition, Part of - Previously

Främre Orienten - Showcase 09:02.

Event - Was Present At

The Swedish archaeological expedition to Iran (1932-1933)

Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Vanden Berghe 1973a fig 11:48; Bard-i-Bal tomb 17. 1000-800 Iron 2. less elongated than ours, L: spikes c 5. Fig 20:11, L: reconstructed c 23, spikes 5, H shaft c 6. Same type spikes, lined ridges on shaft into blade. Tomb 68 Bard-i-Bal Iron 2, 1000-800/750 BC p.33;

— 1972b fig 36:11 same as above;

— 1970b fig 117:6 Bard-i-Bal grave 2 sort of (no bars on spikes nor ridges on blade.) Iron 1, 1100-1000;

Cf/collection: Moorey 1971 pls. 2:18, 3:19 (?);

Potratz 1968 Sarre taf:Iii: 15, 16, 17;

Speleers 1931 fig. II, arrow on blade; Maxwell-Hyslop 1949 pl. xxxvi-ii type 20B, blade splayed, ribbing continued on surface, inscribed Late 2 E1 Mill (1500-1250 -800 BC);

Dossin 1962 pl. XXIV: 14 generally similar, inscribed Nabu-kudurri-usur.

Publications

Marino 2000 p. 37 Fig. 1

PhotoNegNo

7 below M Sjöblom

Reference - Published in

Marino-Hultman, Pat (2000). Bronser från Luristan: persiska metallarbeten i Medelhavsmuseet = Ancient Persian metalwork : the collection of Luristan bronzes at Medelhavsmuseet. Republished and revised

Source - http: libris.kb.se

Kind

Length / Längd

20,5 cm

Height / Höjd

5,2 cm

Cf MMLur

393?

Diameter

1,7 cm; Lower,1,6 cm

Dimensions

H of shaft. 5.2 cm, L. 20.5 cm, Ø Upper. 1.7 cm, Ø Lower. 1.6 cm.

Analysis no

126

Cu

94.37

Zn

0.01

Ag

0.01

Sn

5.85

Pb

0.03

Total

100.2

Condition

Heavy rusty beige encrusted surface. Intact.

Conservation - Executed

Cleaning and conservation report. D-nr 16455013, 950108. General condition and corrosion: entire surface covered with extremely hard, cement-like calcareous deposits. Underneath, the surface is unevenly covered with thin layers of both medium dark green and brown corrosion products. No obvious active corrosion. Object has been drilled to take sample for metallographic analysis. Treatment: cleaned mechanically with scalpel, small soft rotating bristle and steel brushes, under magnification. Lightly waxed with bee's wax using small soft rotating bristle brush.

Original register

Luristan

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