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1892.67.608

Stone axe with curved expanded edge and tapering butt. [SM 26/06/2008]

1892.67.608

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Collection type
Object
Description
Stone axe with curved expanded edge and tapering butt. [SM 26/06/2008]
Geographical reference
Greece
Europe > Southern Europe > Greece
West Greece Ilia Elis [Eleia]
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Neolithic
Date collected
By 1892
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1892
Materials and processes
Material Stone, Process Ground
Dimensions
Length: max 54 mm, Width: max 41 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.67.608
Research and responses

Note that only a tiny fraction of JW Flower items are also marked as being related to the Pitt Rivers founding collection. Whilst it is possible that they did originally form part of the founding collection, were brought from London in 1884 and then placed with the geological (or other) collections at Oxford University Museum of Natural History before eventually being transferred to the Pitt Rivers Museum it seems odd that they were not all recorded as being related to the founding collection. Most are attributed to being donated by Flowers to OUMNH and being transferred from there [AP 23/07/2009]

Elis was an ancient Greek settlement, district [which roughly corresponds with the modern prefecture of Ilia] and is also the name of a modern small village. It is uncertain which Elis is meant in relation to this object. [MN 11/08/2009]

Search terms: Tool, Axe

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