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SHM 20563 MMLur 106 :: adze

Object description: Cast. Short cylindrical shaft with broad collar around upper and lower ends, ridge down shaft butt. U-shaped ridge lies horizontally on sides of shaft. Blade, thick and inclining from shaft, perpendicural to shaft, flares somewhat out into convex cutting edge. Irregular impressions on top of adze.

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Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 106

Serie nummer

347

MM Lur

106

Object

adze

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze high tin

Acquisition

Bought from Persiska kompaniet, 1934

Description

Cast. Short cylindrical shaft with broad collar around upper and lower ends, ridge down shaft butt. U-shaped ridge lies horizontally on sides of shaft. Blade, thick and inclining from shaft, perpendicural to shaft, flares somewhat out into convex cutting edge. Irregular impressions on top of adze.

Period

Late 2 Millennium BC ? Ur III 2100 BC

Name - Acquired from

Statens Historiska museum

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

Comments

Very high tin. Northover personal communication metallurgy seminar Uppsala fall 97 ancients very much aware and careful measurements for intended effect high tin. For silver appearance, easily cast?

Cf Publications

Cf/excavation: Haller 1954 pl. 7d adze, same idea different shaft - L: c13, H: c5.5 copper Ass 20 555h grave 2 Ur III;

Hill & Jacobsen 1990 pl. 63:d bronze axe VI:97, Khafajah mound C;

Cf/collection: Moorey 1971 pl. 4: 29. May be attributed to Gandsha-Karabagh culture of Azerbaijan in the later second mill BC (Hancar 1934, p. 60). It is very similar to an axe reported from the region of Elizavetpol/Gansha [Izvestiya Arkheologitscheskoi Komissii, xii, 1904, fig. 14]. For culture see Sulimirski 1970, pp. 367-8.

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