Western Asiatic Bronze Flat Axe

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

7 1/4 in. (264 grams, 18.5 cm).

Trapezoid blade with narrow butt and curved cutting edge, rectangular in cross-section.

Provenance

Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 17.10, for type.

Footnotes

This was one of the commonest tool types in the Early and Middle Cypriot Bronze Age, but rarer in the Late Bronze Age. These axes were fixed to a wooden shaft with thongs.

CONDITION

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