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Minoan bronze double axe head

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An image of Weapons/axes/tools. Double axe head. Bronze, length 0.22 m, width 0.075 m, depth 0.03 m, 1600 B.C. — 1101 B.C. Production Place: Crete, Greek Islands. Late Minoan & Bronze Age.

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Weapons/axes/tools. Double axe head. Bronze, length 0.22 m, width 0.075 m, depth 0.03 m, 1600 B.C. — 1101 B.C. Production Place: Crete, Greek Islands. Late Minoan & Bronze Age.

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  • Accession Number: GR.2a.1901
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/39.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 678 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 56.72kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 39/1
  • Captured: 2012:05:15 15:53:01

Key words

Ancient Greece antiquity axe axe-head BC bronze Bronze Age Cretan Fitz_ANT Greek Minoan Period tool weapon

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