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LOT 1095
Western Asiatic Bronze Flat Axe
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 3/8 in. (106 grams, 18.6 cm).
Featuring wedge-shaped cheeks, a convex cutting edge and rounded terminal. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK private collection formed before 2000.
Ex North London, UK, gallery.
Cf. Çetin, A., Bilgi, Ö., Weapons of the Protohistoric Age, Istanbul, 1989, figs.21-22, pp.50-51.
FootnotesThe flat axe belongs to Type 1, sub-type a.4 of the Çetin-Bilgi classification of flat axes. They have concave-sided blade, rectangular in section, a splayed cutting edge and a narrow butt. The first examples of axe-type weapons appear in the last phase of the Late Chalcolithic Age in the Middle East and Anatolia.
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