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Axe head
Height: 0.065 m
Length: 0.025 m
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1895) by Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Sir
Accession number: E.5.1895
Primary reference Number: 49403
Oldadmincategory: Misc
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Axe head" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/49403 Accessed: 2023-04-01 18:54:32
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/49403
|title=Axe head
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-04-01 18:54:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-49403
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant13/E_5_1895.jpg"
alt="Axe head"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Axe head</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
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