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LOT 0315
Large Bronze Age Socketted Axehead
KOBAN CULTURE, 12TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
8 1/8 in. (732 grams, 20.8 cm).
Substantial hexagonal-section neck developing to a thick blade with rounded edge and scooped underside; ellipsoid-section socket with three lateral ribs to each face, carinated knop to rear.
ProvenancePrivate European collection, 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.
See Nikoloz Gobejishvili, Interrelation of Colchian and Koban Cultures According to Burial Constructions and Funerary Customs (Late Bronze – Early Iron Age), in 'Spekali', Tbilisi, 2014.
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