LURISTAN CEREMONIAL AXE HEAD

LURISTAN CEREMONIAL AXE HEAD

Bronze axe-head with cylindrical shaft-hole and four rows of spikes.

Ex priv. coll. L.v.Roozendaaal, Netherlands, acq. before 1989.
H. 18,5 cm. Green and red patina. Mounted. Intact.

10th-9th cent. BC

Cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, no. 17-19, pl. 2-3.