Beth Shean

Shaft-hole axe, type "open hand"/"spike butted", from Upper Altar room (room 1068) in Level VII temple at Beth Shean, Israel.

Weight:c. grams (axe head) -Length: 20.5 cm (bronze) - Material: 10% tin.

Edge: hardened through cold hammering - Original: Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem (36-1662); Miron 1994:no. 322 .