Axe

33-41-30

From: Russia

Curatorial Section: Near Eastern

Object Number 33-41-30
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Russia
Section Near Eastern
Materials Iron
Description

Iron. Broard socket extended on one side to form an armature which flares on its lower edge to form the body of the blade. Edges taper from socketted end to blade end. Upper edge flat; lower edge deeply concave. lower tip of blade broken off.

Slavonic-Kurgansk type of approximately 10th and 11th centuries.

Length 18 cm
Width 9.5 cm
Credit Line Exchange with Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography, Leningrad, 1933
Other Number 5057-1 - Other Number

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