Ancient Elamite Copper Axe Head

**Originally Listed At $350** Ancient Near East, Southwest Iran, Elamite culture, ca. 3000 to 500 BCE. A fine hand-crafted copper axe head with a curved blade and socket. The butt end also features a

**Originally Listed At $450** Ancient Near East, Southwestern Iran, Elamite culture, ca. 1900 to 1300 BCE. A gathering of 2 axe heads from the ancient Elamites. First is a bronze axe head with a trape

Ancient Near East, Iran, Elamite people, ca. 2200 BCE. A pair of well-shaped bronze axe heads with short, curved blades and long cylindrical sockets. These emphasize the beautiful, but simple geometry

Ancient Near East, Southwestern Iran, Elamite culture, ca. 1900 to 1300 BCE. A gorgeous bronze axe head, made to imitate a fierce weapon but with ornate flourishes on its blade and haft-hole. The blad

Ancient Near East, Neo-Sumerian Empire / Sumeria, ca. 2100 to 1500 BCE. A wonderful pair of ancient Sumerian axe heads: a copper axe head with a spiked butt and a bronze axe head. Probably intended as

Ancient Near East, the Levant, Canaan, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1950 to 1539 BCE. A set of 3 ancient axe heads, 2 cast from bronze and the largest from copper. The slender axe heads each have an ovoid s

An Egyptian rounded copper axe head, Middle Kingdom – Early New Kingdom, c. 2061 – 1292 BC, of rounded form with long lug handles. Reddish patina beneath greenish encrustation. Rare! The rounded a

**Originally Listed At $800** Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A fine set of axe heads that are cast from either bronze or copper. The petite copper axe head exhibi

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A lovely cast-copper axe head with a long narrow blade and a rounded butt end. A circular socketing hole is set through the center

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. A fine axe head cast from copper, that may have been intended for ceremonial use. The axe features a long socketing shaft that is s

Ancient Near East, Luristan, modern-day Iran, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. This is a large, heavy, lost-wax cast copper axe head with a bulbous design on its socket and a flat, flared butt. Ancient Luristan w

**Originally Listed At $500** Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan culture, ca. 9th to 7th century BCE. An intriguing axe head forged from copper of perhaps a ceremonial form. Atop the back

Ancient Near East, the Levant, Canaan, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1950 to 1539 BCE. A fine pair of cast leaded-bronze and copper axe heads with a characteristic 'duckbill' shape and openwork hafting slots

Pre-Columbian, Peru, Inca Empire, ca. early 15th century to early 16th century CE. A fine set of 5 tools forged from copper and bronze from the ancient Inca. First is a slender copper axe head of a li

A nice Bronze Age copper flat-bladed axe head, Near Eastern/Holy Land, c. 3500 - 2200 BC, flat, solid body with flat cutting edge, the back end with some corrosion due to impurities in metal during ma

Ancient Near East, northwestern Iran, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A lovely cast copper-bronze axe head with two distinct faces. A large socketing shaft is adorned with a ringed base and a molded ri

**Originally Listed At $200** Pre-Columbian, Peru, ca. 1000 to 1500 CE. A set of 3 copper tools from ancient Peru including a large, thin tumi, a slender applicator, and a compact axe head. The tumi f

Hittite Empire, Middle Bronze Age, ca. 1600 to 1180 BCE. This is a copper axe headwith a flared end and a dark patina. Axe heads like this were often the product of patronage from Hittite rulers. They

Ancient South Asia, India, Gangetic Basic, Copper Hoard Culture, ca. 1000 BCE. A cast-copper chisel or axe head of a lengthy form with a thick body and acutely angled edges along both ends. This objec

A mixed lot of Axe-heads and Chinese knife money. Lot includes a Bronze Age copper axe, c. 3rd Millennium BC, if flat construction and slightly rounded cutting edge, (L: 3 in, 7.6 cm), an Egyptian dar

**Originally Listed At $400** Near East, Ancient Anatolian and Persian cultures, Luristan / Achaemenid / Elamite, late Bronze to Iron Age, ca. 2000 to 400 BCE. A collection of cast copper and bronze s

Ancient Near East, Elamite, Bronze Age, 2nd millennium BCE. A fantastic cast leaded copper cosmetic vessel and applicator decorated with zoomorphic forms. The jar is hollow-formed with a rounded body,

**Originally Listed At $1000** Pre-Columbian, Southern Peru, Inca Empire, ca. 1400 to 1533 CE. A cast-copper axe head presenting a thick rectangular body and a crescent-shaped blade with projecting la

Pre-Columbian, Mexico City region, Aztec (Mexica), ca. 1300 to 1500 CE. A beautiful example of a "tepoztli", the metal component of a "tlaximaltepoztli" (in Nahuatl, tlaximal=carpentry and tepoztli=me