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HoB 119: Iron adze. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Iron adze
- Date
- Context: Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age, Late Bronze Age; Early Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M18.008
- Material
- Iron
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Tool
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB 62
- Locus
- HoB LBA/EIA - Deep Sounding A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 - E15 / S100 - S105 *94.8
- Findspot
- E10-15 / S100-105 *94.80
- Description
Heavily corroded on surface, but metal preserved in the core. Broad flat blade, roughly rectangular.
Early Iron Age. Compare to HoB 237.
- Dimensions
- Max. L. 21.90, max. W. 6.30 cm.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Sardis M8, cat. no. 127.
- Author
- AR