KOBAN CULTURE, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

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A CAUCASIAN BRONZE AXE-HEAD
KOBAN CULTURE, CIRCA 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
With elliptical shaft-hole and crescentic blade decorated on both sides with a stippled stylized snake, three double concentric circles between the curves of the body, four conjoined triangles above, with triangles and circle motifs flanking the shaft-hole
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) long

Provenance

Formerly in an American private collection, mid-1990s.
French private collection.

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Lot Essay

Cf. D. Collon, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The British Museum, London, 1995, p. 175, pl. 140; In Pursuit of the Absolute: Art of the Ancient World from the George Ortiz Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1994, no. 211; and Avant les Scythes: prehistoire de l'art en U.R.S.S., Grand Palais, Paris, 1979, pp. 152, 158, 174-175, 194-195, nos. 143, 165 and 209-211 for similar axe-heads.

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