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| KOBAN CULTURE BRONZE AXE HEAD With a spotted hound incised on the blade and three bands of zig-zags separated by two lines farther up the blade. Rare. With elliptical shaft-hole and crescentic blade decorated on both sides with the stippled figure of a hound, four conjoined stippled triangles above, with stylized snakes flanking the shaft-hole. Cf. On the way to the Golden Fleece. Archaeological Findings from Georgia, exhibition catalogue, Munich Staatliche Museum, 1995, p. 284, no. 230, pl. 107f. Ex German private collection. Caucasus, 9th-8th Century BC L. 6 5/8 in. (17 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2009, no. 211 GMS068 $12,500 Sales |
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