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Lot 127

Two Near Eastern bronze axe heads and a Near Eastern bronze attachment
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1 December 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£800 - £1,200

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Two Near Eastern bronze axe heads and a Near Eastern bronze attachment
Circa early 2nd Millennium B.C.-1st Millennium B.C.
Comprising a Canaanite duck-billed axe head, socketed and with two characteristic apertures in the blade; a Levantine fenestrated eye axe head, socketed and with two large apertures in the blade; and a crescentic attachment with four semi-circular holes, 9.5cm long, 8.7cm long and 16.5cm high respectively (3)

Footnotes

Provenance:
Axe heads: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1997, lot 409 and 411 (part).
Oliver Hoare (1945-2018) collection, UK.

For two similar fenestrated axe heads see O. Muscarella, Bronze and Iron; Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, p. 386, nos. 510 and 511.

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