IDENTIFIERS
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id:	52369
accession number:	E.6.1926

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 26 November 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: adze, inscribed
object type: Blade from an adze, thin, rounded butt at one end with a splayed edge at the other. Likely a carpenter's adze. Features a hieroglyphic inscription, possibly a property mark, thus indicating the owner of the item. Appears to read "[...] Ka"

 See Petrie (1925) "Tombs of the Courtiers" for a plate featuring this object, and inscription, Pl. III.
title:	adze

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/52369





CATEGORIES
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category: tool
category: implement

DATING
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culture:	1st Dynasty
culture:	Early Dynastic Period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: m
value: 0.006

dimension: Height
units: m
value: 0.223

dimension: Width
units: m
value: 0.03



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