Double Axe
MS4212
Location: On Display in the Classical World Gallery
From: Greece | Crete | Pseira
Curatorial Section: Mediterranean
Object Number | MS4212 |
Current Location | Classical World Gallery - On Display |
Culture | Minoan |
Provenience | Greece | Crete | Pseira |
Period | Late Minoan I |
Section | Mediterranean |
Materials | Bronze |
Description | Shape: Double axe with lozenge-shaped shaft hole and groove longitudinally across shaft-hole on one side only. Blades splay slightly. |
Height | 5 cm |
Width | 17.5 cm |
Thickness | 2.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Candia Museum (Herakleion Archaeological Museum); R. B. Seager, 1907 |
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