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LOT 1835
Bactrian Bronze Decorated Socketted Axehead
BRONZE AGE, 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/2 in. (104 grams, 11.6 cm).
Comprising a short tubular socket with flared neck to the angled blade; incised herringbone ornament to both faces flanked by pounced triangular panels in bilinear bands,
Provenance
From an old English collection formed since 1960.
Literature
Cf. Curtis, J., Early Mesopotamian and Iran, London, 1993, fig.7, p.80 for a similar example.
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