Urartu Arsenical Bronze Battle Axe, ex-Piscopo

Near East, Urartu culture, modern day Iran / Armenia, ca. 2300 to 2100 BCE. This is a cast bronze battle axe with a flat, rectangular blade and a flared butt with simple, curvilinear raised designs ar

**Originally Listed At $250** Ancient Near East, Eastern Turkey, Iran, and Armenia, Urartu culture, Iron Age, ca. 900 to 600 BCE. A cast bronze axe head with a slender but thick blade that extends fro

Eastern Europe, ca. 1000 BCE. This is a large, heavy, cast bronze axe with a rounded socket and flared blade. It was made during the Bronze Age by one of the many small kingdoms and tribal cultures th

Luristan, modern-day Iran, ca. 1000 to 600 BCE. This is a large, heavy, lost-wax cast bronze axe head with a downward curving blade and a simple round socket with rims on both top and bottom. Ancient

Bactria-Margiana (BMAC), modern day central Asia, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. This is a bronze axe head with a characteristic curved shape and narrow socket; one end flares outward while the blade

Ancient Near East, ca. 2000 BCE. This is a gorgeous example of a large cast bronze axe head with clean, simple design and an elongated ovoid socket. Size: 7.4" L x 3.4" W (18.8 cm x 8.6 cm). Provenan

**First Time At Auction** East Asia, China, Late Neolithic period, ca. 2000 BCE. A small bronze axe head with a socketed hafting end, a gently tapering neck, a broad head, and flared blade tips. Thick

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

**Originally Listed At $350** Bactria-Margiana (BMAC), modern day central Asia, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. This is a bronze axe head with a characteristic curved shape and narrow socket; based on

Far East, China, Han Dynasty, ca. 206 BCE to 220 CE. A large cast bronze Han Dynasty pole axe with a lengthy dual-edged blade, a pronounced blood ridge on both faces, each ridge punctuated by an attra

Central Asia, Bactria, ca. 2500 to 2000 BCE. This is a bronze votive axe that would have been placed atop a standard for ceremonial purposes; it has a small, round socket and a hook along the top of t

Bactria-Margiana (BMAC), modern day central Asia, ca. 3rd to 2nd millennium BCE. This is a bronze axe head with a characteristic curved shape and narrow socket. As ever, central Asia was a crossroads

Well made copy of a Canaanite bronze duck bill axe head with characteristic double hole openings, nice patina. Size 4" L x 3" HEx-Piscopo Collection, Ex- San Diego Arms and Armour Collection

Northern Iran, Amlash culture, ca late 2nd to early 1st millennium BCE. Heavy bronze dagger with nearly triangular blade, inserted into wide rounded hilt, spooled pommel on the end. Nice example! Size

Ancient Near East, Canaan, Middle Bronze Age II, 1900 to 1550 BCE. This is a long, thin ceremonial axe head made of cast bronze and dipped in lead, giving it a very interesting white patina. This styl

Northwest Iran, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. Heavy bronze socket axe, decorative border surrounds the entire piece. Interestingly, this axe must have been either purely for votive purposes or as a grave good

Northwest Iran, Luristan culture, ca. 1200 to 1000 BCE. Very rare and desirable bronze axe. Long socket with adze-shaped blade, some form of animal (looks like a shrew, but probably a dog or feline) o

Ancient Near East, Northwestern Iran or Iraq, Luristan or Mesopotamia / Sumer, Bronze Age, ca. 2500 to 2000 BCE. This is a beautiful example of a cast bronze axe-pick with a sophisticated design to th

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

China, Bronze Age, ca. 1700 to 200 CE. This is a pair of small bronze socketed axe heads. One has the remnants of a wooden handle inside of its socket; the other, slightly larger, has an incised desig

China, Warring States Period, 475 to 221 BCE. This is a ge (dagger-axe) blade. The ge was an early pole weapon, with a dagger-shaped blade mountain by its tang to a perpendicular wooden shaft. This ge

Ancient Near East, most likely Iran, ca. 2500 to 2000 BCE. This is a cast copper alloy pick-axe with a round, elongated shaft hole and a butt with four blunted spikes. Where the shaft hole meets the t

**First Time At Auction** Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BCE. A trio of well-aged bronze armaments in three unique weapon typologies. First is a socketed axe head with a flat butt end, a

China, Warring States, 475 to 221 BCE. This is a ge (dagger-axe) blade. The ge was an early pole weapon, with a dagger-shaped blade mountain by its tang to a perpendicular wooden shaft. This ge was ma