A battle damaged Near Eastern axe head, c. 1st Century BC, with a brownish green patina. This cast bronze axe head was actively used in battle and exhibits a notch in the blade from contact with a sword or opposing axe, H: 3 in (7.6cm), L: 5 1/3 in (14.3cm). In the early first millennium BC., inhabitants of the mountainous region of western Iran known today as Luristan manufactured an astonishing variety of bronze objects, including weapons, standards, jewelry, horse ornaments, and vessels, most of which have been recovered from cemeteries. The nature of the society, economy, and language that produced these bronzes is not known with certainty. Ex Collection of Arthur Sackler.

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