Description: A duck-billed bronze axehead with an ovoid socket and tongue-shaped blade with two elliptical piercings extending to the socket. A chip to one end of the socket, a chip to the blade and a variegated green patina. Some blistering of the surface due to alteration but generally sound, probably Canaanite.
Size: 103 mm/4 ins. in length
Culture: Near Eastern
Date: c. 2nd Millennium B.C.
Provenance: Previously in a London private collection and acquired from the UK art market during the 1970s-1980s.
Supplied with a wooden block stand.
