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Bactrian bronze axe head BACTRIAN BRONZE AXE HEAD

The narrow blade decorated with incised chevrons, cut-away socket with banded edges, the shaft decorated with two squatting figures each wearing short tunic, one wrestling a seated feline the other with arms around the feline and a standing quadruped.

Ex London art market, late 1990s.

2nd Millennium BC

L. 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2012, no. 251
CLT168
$27,500


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