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LOT 0353
Bronze Age Decorated Sceptre Head
13TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
10 5/8 in. (558 grams, 27 cm).
Composed of a high profiled tubular shaft with two long arms slightly inclining downwards; three collars to the shaft and a flat round disc to one end.
ProvenanceAcquired on the Austrian art market, 2000, from Mr N.C.
European private collection.
Cf. Novotná, M., Die Axte und Beile in der Slowakei, München, 1970, pls.23ff, for identical specimens, especially nos.381, 382, 395.
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