- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Copper axe
- Person
- Field collector Mr Griffiths
- PRM source Trustees of Manchester College, Oxford
- PRM source Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
- PRM source Manchester College, Oxford
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Maya, uncertain
- Date collected
- 1878
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 07/1915
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Cast
- Dimensions
- Length x Width x Height: max 119 x 60 x 10 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1915.32.77
- Research and responses
There is a Tzabal in Guatemala, but it's not 120 miles S of Belize (and it's a very small place). This is more probably from the Department or town of Izabel, which is the location of the Mayan ruins at Quiriguá - and is to the S of Belize. [Dan Hicks 10/09/2012]
1915.32.77
Copper axe
1915.32.77
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