Three Elamite bronze axeheads
Circa 3rd-2nd Millennium B.C.
Comprising an axehead with flaring blade and slightly convex edge, the shaft socket with a profile lion in relief on each side, its mouth open wide, its breath becoming the midrib of the blade; an axehead with rounded blade with a pierced eye incised at the base of the raised, forked midrib on each side, and crest-like protome with incised lines protruding from the back of the shaft; and an axehead with crescentic blade, the slanted shaft-hole with a stylised eye in relief on each side, a balancing downward curving tang on the other side, 17.2cm long, 19.5cm long and 17.5cm respectively (3)注脚Provenance:
Oliver Hoare (1945-2018) collection, UK, acquired in September 1997 from the London art market.

For a similar axehead to item one, see P.R.S. Moorey, Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Adam Collection, London, 1974, p.40, no. 5.