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LOT 1613
Bronze Age Decorated Looped and Socketted Axehead
CENTRAL EUROPE, 2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/4 in. (255 grams, 10.9 cm).
With ellipsoid-section shank and splayed blade with curved cutting edge; raised ribs beneath the carinated mouth, small loop below the rim. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx David Miller, Hemel Hempstead, London, UK.
From the private collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the early 2000s.
Cf. MacGregor, A., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Ashmolean Museum, 1987, no.11, for type.
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