Large Luristan Bronze Socketted Axe-Adze

13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

9 1/2 in. (1.14 kg, 24 cm).

With tapering socket and flared rim to the mouth, vertical axe-blade with curved cutting edge, horizontal adze blade of similar proportions.

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 2, London, 2004, items 21, 34.

Footnotes

The earliest axe-adzes from the 3rd millennium B.C. were weapons and tools furnished with socketted holes. Usually the socket is a more secure way of attaching the object to a wooden haft than having a tang. These weapons developed into a range of different forms in the 2nd millennium B.C., which were used until at least 800 B.C.

CONDITION

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