Luristan Bronze Adze-Axe

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

10 in. (1.25 kg, 25.7 cm).

With central shaft hole and blade set at a right angle.

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, item 34, p.32.

Footnotes

The adze-axe was a fundamental axe of many Bronze Age ancient cultures. Its form was one that lends itself to dual purposes - for war and work. As a tool, it functioned in woodwork in fabricating a variety of objects and as a weapon, its heavy mass and compact form make it a very deadly striking and chopping weapon, even able to defeat light armour.

CONDITION

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