Context (Related Documents)
See related correspondence and papers (GC/1-7) held by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Field collection)
Bought at Hureidha. Collected by Gertrude Caton Thompson, Wakefield Expedition, 1937-1938.
Event Date 1937
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Gertrude Caton Thompson (1944): 'Miniature polished jade axe. The section is a pointed oval. The wide cutting-edge has angular corners; the sides are bevelled. The conical butt is shattered and may have been fitted into an amuletic pendant.'
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Caton Thompson, Gertrude. (1944). 'The Tombs and Moon Temple of Hureidha (Hadhramaut)' Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No XIII. Oxford: 1944. Plate LXI.5
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Caton Thompson notes that 'Dr Leonard Hawkes, F.G.S., kindly examined these three axes [1951.661-1951.662 A-B], and considers them to be true jade. Their specific gravity is between 2.97 and 3.00, which seems to preclude jadeite, which has a specific gravity of 3.3... The source of the jade is unknown. It occurs in metamorphosed rocks of unusual type, and until the rocks of south-west Arabia have been geologically mapped and examined it may be unwise to assume that our specimens came necessarily from the known jade localities in Turkestan, Siberia or Kashmir' (pp. 144-145).
Event Date 1944
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for 1951.622 A-B: 'Two miniature polished jade axes.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Miniature polished jade axe with pointed oval section and bevelled sides; the cutting edge has angular corners. The butt is damaged.
Event Date 28/10/2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Al Kindi, Mohammed et al. (2021). 'Neolithic long-distance exchanges in Southern Arabia: A supposed road for the 'Jade' axes.' Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 39. pp. 1-12. Fig. 4.b
Event Date 2021
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)