Category:Adze-AO 11611

**adze-AO 11611**
	adze with an alphabetical cuneiform inscription
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Instance of	adze; archaeological artifact;
Made from material	bronze;
Location	Room 301, Sully Wing, Louvre Palace, 1st arrondissement of Paris, Paris Centre, Paris, Grand Paris
Creator	unknown value;
Location of discovery	Ugarit;
Owned by	French State;
Collection	Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre;
Inventory number	AO 1611 (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities of the Louvre);
Inception	2nd millennium BC (before 1100 BC, after 1300 BC);
Width	6.4 cm;
Diameter	5.2 cm;
Length	23 cm;
Authority file
	Q28969467; Louvre Museum ARK ID: 010136329
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adze-AO 11611

Artist

Unknown author

Title

Adze

Object type

adze / archaeological artifact

Description

An Ugaritic inscribed adze, belonged to 𐎃𐎗𐎕𐎐𐎟𐎗𐎁𐎟𐎋𐎅𐎐𐎎 (ḫrṣn rb khnm; "rb khnm" means "chief priest")

Date

between 14^th century and 13^th century BC

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

length: 23 cm (9 in)

; width: 6.4 cm (2.5 in)

; thickness: 1.4 cm (0.5 in)

; diameter: 5.2 cm (2 in)

Collection

Louvre Museum (Inventory)

	Native name	Louvre Museum
	Location	1st arrondissement of Paris , France
	Coordinates	48° 51′ 40″ N, 2° 20′ 09″ E
	Established	10 August 1793
	Website	www.louvre.fr
	Authority file	: Q19675 VIAF: 257711507 ISNI: 000000012260177X ULAN: 500125189 LCCN: n80020283 NLA: 35912436 WorldCat

Current location

Levant, room B: Syrie côtière, Ougarit et Byblos. Sully, ground floor.
This work is part of the collections of the Louvre (Department of Near Eastern Antiquities).

Accession number

AO 11611

Place of discovery

Ugarit

Object history

1929: excavated by Claude Frédéric-Armand Schaeffer and Georges Chenet. Place: Port of Ugarit, Minet el-Beida. Ugarit, today Ras Shamra.

References

Musée du Louvre, Atlas database: entry 21190

Authority file

: Q28969467
Louvre: 010136329

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