WESTERN ASIATIC DUCK-BILLED AXE

Ca. 2000-1750 BC A finely cast ancient Canaanite bronze socketed D-shaped axe head featuring a semicircular tongue-shaped cutting blade, decorated with two incised channels, two elliptical countersunk

2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with ovoid socket and ribbed tongue-shaped blade, two elliptical piercings to each face extending to the socket. 285 grams, 11cm (4 1/4") From a West Sussex collect

Ancient Near East, Syria, ca. 2nd millennium BCE. This is a really fantastic, wide example of one of the most distinctive cast bronze forms from the ancient Near East. It is the "duckbill" design, cre

Canaan, the Levant, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1950 to 1539 BCE. This is a finely shaped, bronze flat axe head with the "duckbill" design -- two ovoid openings near the shaft. This piece would be wonderfu

A Near Eastern bronze ‘Duck-Billed’ axe-head, c. 2nd Millennium BC, with two oval openings and curved cutting edge. A pleasant example of this distinctive type with mottled green patination. 3 3/8

2nd millennium BC. A haematite weight in the form of a duck, head along the back of the body. Exhibited: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Genève Exhibition, 30 March-20 September 2000: Animaux d'Art et d'H

Western Asiatic/Aegan, ca. 1200-700 BC.A bronze axe with unique serrated edges and a blade emerging from an animal's mouth. It features a tubular shaft with four end spikes. Size: L:210mm / W:80mm ; 4

A Mesopotamian amethyst duck weight with head turned back. This is a common shape of weight, "sleeping duck". 19 mm. length. 3 grams.CONDITION Very good condition. PROVENANCE In an English art market

Title: Large Western Asiatic Bronze Axe Head, c. 2nd - 1st Millennium B.C. Date & Origin: Western Asiatic, 2nd - 1st Millennium B.C. Desciption: Double edge axe, one side fan shaped with thinning blad

Right:A cast bronze war axe head featuring a long, undecorated, cylindrical shaft and the flattened blade, drawn out from the top of the shaft, broadens out towards the cutting edge which is slightly

Elamite, Ca. 1100-540 BC A bronze flat axe with a narrow back, expanding to the curved blade. To the rear a round socket with an elongated flange from which a decorative cast recumbent ram protrudes.S

2nd millennium BC. A bronze pendant formed as a labrys two-bladed axehead with three bands to each face connecting to the columnar shank with pierced arrow-head finial; old collector's acquisition lab

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. Cast axe head comprising of a tubular socket with ribbed borders, a scroll to the upper edge and bulb below, a collar can be seen above the lower rim. The asym

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. Cast axe head comprising of a tubular socket with ribbed borders, a scroll to the upper edge and bulb below, collar above the lower rim. A short blade with a w

9th-6th century BC. A bronze axehead with slender expanding blade and rounded cutting edge, flared socket with stud to the reverse. See Maxwell-Hyslop, R., ‘Western Asiatic Shaft-Hole Axes’ in Ira

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. A finely modelled Western-Asiatic cast bronze double axe head, composed of a long, tubular socket with four ribbed borders, a convex axe blade and an adze blad

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. A beautiful two-bladed axe head of the labrys type. Custom made stand included. Provenance: Private Oxfordshire collection; Formerly acquired on the European a

Ca. 1200–700 BC. Western Asiatic. A beautiful two-bladed axe head of the labrys type. Bronze weaponry production flourished from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC when it was gradually repl

Western Asiatic, Ca. 1200-700 BC. A double axe-head cast in bronze. The weapon features a short cylindrical shaft hole with a collar, a flattened top with a vertical crescent-shaped blade with sides t

Western Asiatic, Ca. 1200-700 BC. A bronze axe head with a curved blade, tapering cheek, and a wedge-shaped adze to the rear. The shaft short and cylindrical. An axe such as this one would have been a

Western Asiatic, Ca. 1200-700 BC. A bronze axe head with a curved blade, tapering cheek and a circular socket with four protrusions to the rear. The design of the axe head is indicative of the period'

1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with flaring blade decorated with a crouching lion with hooked axe shape coming out of its mouth; blade is attached to the haft by a lion head; haft decorated with

Western Asiatic, Ca. 1200-700 BC. An attractive ceremonial axe head with flared blade and wide, cylindrical shaft tube. On the back, a solid bronze animal climbs the poll of the axe. The diligently wo

Late 2nd-early 1st millennium B.C. A copper-alloy adze-axe head composed of an off-centre cylindrical socket, one blade at a right angle to the socket with tapering sides and D-section cutting edge; o