About the Artwork
Axe Head with Spiked Butt
1250 - 900 BCE
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Iranian
Luristan
Bronze
Overall: 4 1/4 × 8 1/8 × 1 1/4 inches (10.8 × 20.6 × 3.2 cm)
Arms and Armor
Ancient Near Eastern Art
Gift of Ahmad Biabani
72.50
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Ahmad Biabani
1972-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, pp. 49-51 [similar axe-heads discussed and dated, type in use from 12th to the early 8th centuries B.C.], p. 48 (fig. 5), pl. 2. (fig. 15, 16) (ill.).
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Luristan, Iranian, Axe Head with Spiked Butt, 1250 - 900 BCE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Ahmad Biabani, 72.50.
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