NW-IRAN/ LURISTAN BRONZE CRESCENTIC AXE HEAD

NW-IRAN/ LURISTAN BRONZE CRESCENTIC AXE HEAD

Crescent-shaped blade with five projecting spikes in centre

Ex estate of Rabi Soleyman, London; thereafter Alexander Ancient Art.
H. 24,5 cm. Green patina. Mounted

Early 1st mill. BC

Cf. P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1971, no. 26, pl. 3.