Minoan bronze double axe head

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

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

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