The discovery in 2010 of a cachette with four copper axes in the Palace of Khirbet al-Batrawy (a 3 rd Millennium BC city in North-Central Jordan) and, in the following 2011 season, the retrieval of a fifth additional axe from the Palace, increased the number of copper weapons from Early Bronze III urban contexts of the Southern Levant. A group of copper weapons similar to the Batrawy one was found in Tell el-Hesi in 1891, while the latest retrieval is the hoard found in Pella in 1994-1995. The Batrawy axes were found in the Palace Hall which also gave back a great amount of other valuable finds. Their study shed new light on metal procurement, trade and working, as well as on weapons distribution and use during the earliest urban floruit of Jordan.
Thecopperaxes hoard in the Early Bronze IIIB Palace of Batrawy, Jordan / Nigro, Lorenzo. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 77-83. (Intervento presentato al convegno Copper and Trade tenutosi a Cracovia nel 5-7 maggio 2012).
Thecopperaxes hoard in the Early Bronze IIIB Palace of Batrawy, Jordan
NIGRO, Lorenzo
2015
Abstract
The discovery in 2010 of a cachette with four copper axes in the Palace of Khirbet al-Batrawy (a 3 rd Millennium BC city in North-Central Jordan) and, in the following 2011 season, the retrieval of a fifth additional axe from the Palace, increased the number of copper weapons from Early Bronze III urban contexts of the Southern Levant. A group of copper weapons similar to the Batrawy one was found in Tell el-Hesi in 1891, while the latest retrieval is the hoard found in Pella in 1994-1995. The Batrawy axes were found in the Palace Hall which also gave back a great amount of other valuable finds. Their study shed new light on metal procurement, trade and working, as well as on weapons distribution and use during the earliest urban floruit of Jordan.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
