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Copper (alloy?) adze. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Copper (Alloy?) Adze
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 8
- Date
- Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7527
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7527
- Material
- Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Tool
- Site
- Turgutlu?
- Description
- Copper or copper alloy. Broad, flat blade, roughly trapezoidal in shape. Blade end wider and slightly rounded; butt end rectangular and narrower for hafting.
- Comments
- Said to come from Turgutlu and purchased by the Manisa Museum in 1989.
- See Also
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHR