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.

CONDITION

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