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LOT 1797
Canaanite Bronze Axehead
BRONZE AGE, 2000-1200 B.C.
4 3/4 in. (116 grams, 12 cm).
Comprising a slender rectangular-section blade and an ellipsoid socket with a flared lower edge. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
Literature
See Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, p..91-93, for the typology.
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