CIRCA 3000-2500 B.C.

Details

A NORDIC NEOLITHIC BOAT-SHAPED BATTLE AXE
CIRCA 3000-2500 B.C.
Of brown pumice, lozenge-shaped outline with sides swelling around the central shaft hole, with curved cutting edge
8¼ in. (21 cm.) long

Provenance

Formerly in The Lord McAlpine collection.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
A. MacGregor, Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of The Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, p. 75, no. 4.187.

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