Object card·SAL_2843·1967

Ovoid-butted stone axe, Campanopetra

Ovoid-butted stone axe, Campanopetra
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2843. "Ovoid-butted stone axe, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Stone axe with an ovoid butt, perhaps andesite, complete, H. 8.8 cm, l. 4.7 cm, ép. 3.5 cm; the thinned cutting edge is worn, one face more convex than the other, with traces of the haft. Found in a deposit of mostly Archaic Bichrome pottery and Archaic terracotta figurines, Campanopetra, square K IV/ε10. Inventory Po_0151; 28 September 1967.

French, as on the record

ép. : 3,5. — Hache à talon ovoïde dessin : D_3235 diapositives : C_2707 inv objet : Po_0151 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0362_p_0117 type :HACHE traces de l'emmanchement. — Trouvée dans un dépôt constitué en majorité de céramique Bichrome archaïque et de figurines en terre cuite, archaïques. — Andésite (?) chantier : Campanopétra num planche : PL_35 num planche : PL_66 l. : 4,7 carre : K IV/ε10 negatif : 00165 complète. H. : 8,8 le tranchant aminci est usé une face est plus bombée que l'autre

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