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LOT 1078

Heavy Western Asiatic Bronze Axehead

LATE 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

5 3/4 in. (741 grams, 14.5 cm).

With swept blade, large socket with shallow raised circumferential rib and a vertical rib to the rear.

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

For similar examples of axes see Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.XX, no.44 (Mundigak, layer III, third quarter of the 3rd millennium B.C.).

Footnotes

In the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C., the most widespread types of axes were those made for splitting and those for cutting. In the last third of this millennium there emerged a sharp differentiation between such axes. Such a sharp division by function should be associated with the influence of the Syro-Palestinian tradition. Such differentiation, in the absence of some multifunctional forms can be observed from the end of the 4th millennium B.C. and during the 3rd millennium B.C.

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LOT 1078

Heavy Western Asiatic Bronze Axehead

Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)

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