Five Copper Axes from Greece

Abstract

We are grateful to the Management Committee of the British School at Athens for permission to study the axes. We wish to thank Mr. M. Boutsicos and Mr. N. Violetis for their assistance with the analyses and metallographic examinations respectively.

9 A brief history of the BSA Museum Study Collection

“…Further study of the collection was undertaken during this period, resulting in a series of new publications (Boardman 1954;Waywell 1970;French 1971;Phelps et al 1979; and later studies by Catling and Jones 1989;Arnott 1990;Catling 1990). The first scientific analyses were conducted on BSA collection objects (stone axes) at this time, which resulted in a published study (Phelps et al 1979) and the production of unpublished notes In 1983 a condition report on the Museum Study Collection was written by Roger Cocking (BSA MUS 01/04/01), in which he gave recommendations for the repacking of objectsa preventative conservation strategyand in which he urged the curators of the museum to return to the task of compiling a full inventory and photographic record. This recommendation was followed up with various projects of shelf-checks and inventorying (BSA MUS 02/05), the most extensive of which was led by Lisa French as director.…”

“…The result is that there are now some 4,000 individual artefacts and over 46,000 sherds of pottery comprising the collection from some 120 different sites (Map 9.1). This collection has been housed and/or displayed in different parts of the premises over the past 130 years, and various small sections, organized by primary material type and studied by object specialists, have been published in the BSA (Wilhelm 1901;Lamb 1924;Cook 1935;Boardman 1954;Waywell 1970;Betts 1971;Phelps et al 1979;Catling and Jones 1989;Arnott 1990;Catling 1990;Lambert 2000;Tomlinson 2000;Coldstream 2003;Smith 2003;Pisani 2006;Smith 2009). What has been lacking, however, is a narrative of the collection itself -although many of its details have been part of unwritten institutional memory.…”

Μελετη Αρχαιων Χαλκινων Αντικειμενων Απο Τον Ελλαδικο Χωρο

“…Οπως προκύπτει από τα αναλυτικά δεδομένα της παρούσας μελέτης και αυτών της βιβλιογραφίας (Phelps et al, 1979, Πετρικάκη, 1980, Σάμψων, 1985, Caley, 1949, Goldman, 1931, Branigan, 1974, Μυλωνάς, 1959, Junghans et al, 1968) κατά την πρώ'ίμη εποχή του χαλκού στην Ηπειρωτική Ελλάδα ο χρησιμοποιηθείς χαλκός είναι κυρίως ο σχετικώς καθαρός χαλκός και ο αρσενικούχος χαλκός με ποσοστά αρσενικού τα οποία δεν υπερβαίνουν το 5%.…”