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拍品專文
Given the connection of whestones with weapons used in battle and during hunting, one might assume that the zoomorphic handle had an apotropaic value that was transferred onto the honed weapon. The slight ridges on the curved-back horns indicate that the animals are ibexes. They are naturalistically rendered with no body markings. This piece is stylistically similar to a Mesopotamian vessel stand with ibex support now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 1974.190.