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.

Provenance

Private European collection, 1990s.
Private collection, London, UK.

Literature

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.

CONDITION

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