Længde 17,2 cm
Enægget bronzeøkse, nakken ender bagtil i en næsten cirkelrund knap. Øksen tager stærkt til i højde fortil. Skafthullet er 2,3 cm og æggens længde er 7,9 cm
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Længde 17,2 cm
Enægget bronzeøkse, nakken ender bagtil i en næsten cirkelrund knap. Øksen tager stærkt til i højde fortil. Skafthullet er 2,3 cm og æggens længde er 7,9 cm
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Længde 17,2 cm
Enægget bronzeøkse, nakken ender bagtil i en næsten cirkelrund knap. Øksen tager stærkt til i højde fortil. Skafthullet er 2,3 cm og æggens længde er 7,9 cm
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Længde 17,2 cm
Enægget bronzeøkse, nakken ender bagtil i en næsten cirkelrund knap. Øksen tager stærkt til i højde fortil. Skafthullet er 2,3 cm og æggens længde er 7,9 cm
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No. 55 (Inventory no. 3153/O.A. VII b 31). One-edged hammer-axe in bronze. The button butt consists of an almost circular knob. Broad curved edge. The broad sides are facetted and the narrow sides are angular around the circular shaft hole. Entirely preserved.
L 17.2 cm. H at shaft hole: 2.3 cm. H of edge: 7.9 cm
Provenance: Naxos. Bought from Rhousopoulos in 1873.
Published: Montelius 1924, Pl. 4, 8. Branigan 1974, 166, no. 585 (13) (“Single-axes” Type II). Lesley Fitton 1989, 36, Fig. 2. Chantre 1874, 7f, fig. 2-3.
Comments: Renfrew 1967, 8 f. compared the axe to one in the British Museum from the so-called “Kythnos hoard” (Renfrew 1967, Cat. no. 33. BM 66, 2-7, 8). In 1989 Lesley Fitton convincingly argued that the hoard, of which 8 pieces are in the British Museum and four in Copenhagen (See also Catalogue nos. 63, 64 and 67), was found in Naxos (Now called “the new Naxos hoard”). Both groups were bought from Rhousopoulos (Lesley Fitton 1989, passim). DATING: Dated by Renfrew to EB2. See however Lesley Fitton 1989, 35-36. A dating in the Early Bronze Age is still the more likely. DISTRIBUTION: Renfrew considers the type to be unusual (“So far the form is uniquely Cycladic”, Renfrew 1967, 9). Sinclair Hood, visiting the museum in Copenhagen in March 1958 considers the piece to be Middle European. Middle European parallels in comp. Coll. National Museum – in stone (battle axes?).