- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Bronze axe.
- Long description
- Bronze object - model of a tool.
- Geographical reference
- Person
- Field collector William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- PRM source Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Early Dynastic
- Date collected
- By 1901
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1901
- Materials and processes
- Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal
- Dimensions
- Width: max 47 mm, Depth 0.5 mm, Width 34 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1901.40.115
- Research and responses
Usual transliteration now Khasekhemwy, final king of Second Dynasty [RW 25/03/02]
See RDF for copy of the Egypt Exploration Society's list of objects sent to the PRM from the Abydos excavations [AS 18/07/2012].
- Associated publications
- Petrie, W.M.F. 1901. The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties, Part II. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. [AS 07/06/2012]
1901.40.115
Bronze axe.
1901.40.115
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