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LOT 0314
Stone Age Corded Ware Polished Battle Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, LATE 5TH-EARLY 4TH MILLENNIUM B.P.
9 in. (912 grams, 23 cm).
A large and finely formed boat-shaped axe in a dark diorite with asymmetric convex cutting edge tapering, with pronounced ridge to upper surface copying a bronze casting seam, to shouldered and rounded hammer-butt, pierced to receive handle with projecting socket to underside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12891-240326.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
See Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.333, for general form and no.486, for an example with collared butt.
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