A rare Near Eastern Bronze Crescent Axehead, ca. 1100 - 900 BCE Sculpture - Varia drawn close beneath the body

drawn close beneath the body

East Greek Pottery (1997)

exhibiting with the Utopia Women in shows around Australia and abroad for a decade before taking up the medium of canvas

There are nice traces of iridescence to the body

A rare Near Eastern Bronze Crescent Axehead, ca. 1100 - 900 BCE Sculpture - Varia drawn close beneath the bodyThis distinctive type of crescentic axehead with a blade of bronze has often been reported from Luristan, where they appear to have been used primarily from about ca. 1100 to 900 BCE and is ultimately of Elamite or possibly Mesopotamian origin. Their decoration associates them directly with the spike butted axes and adzes in use there at the same time. With this example, the short cylindrical shaft hole is ridged at intervals and has a crouching lion