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LOT 1572
Mesopotamian Bronze Socketted Axehead
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 5/8 in. (320 grams, 11.7 cm).
Comprising a tubular socket and a slender triangular blade.
Provenance
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
Literature
For a similar example see Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.XIX, no.15, from Mesopotamia.
Footnotes
Similar axe is represented in hands of Akkadian warriors on the Stele of Victory of Naram-Sim, at the Louvre, dated at 23rd century B.C. It was a typology used by Sumerian and Akkadian warriors.
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