Axe Head
Object Number:
48-2-194
Current Location:
Collections storage
Culture:
Italic
Provenience:
Italy
Etruria
Volterra
Section:
Mediterranean
Materials:
Bronze
Description:
Green patina. Intact. Blade end of axe is shaped into a convex curve. Head tapered upward, with raised edges along both sides of both faces. Upper end was convex, smaller than the lower, and cut at the end by a deep U-shaped notch.
Credit Line:
Gift of Elise Biddle (Mrs. Harold) Paumgarten
Other Number:
| 268 | - | Field No SF |
| L-2-245 | - | Other Number |
Bibliography:
[Book] Warden, Gregory P. 1997. The Hilprecht Collection of Greek, Italic, and Roman Bronzes in the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 27
[Catalogue] Moore, Charlotte B. 1969. Description and analysis of the bronze and lead objects in the Herman V. Hilprecht Collection, the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.
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