Lot 77
COLLECTION OF BRONZE AGE AND LATER BLADES AND IMPLEMENTS
NEAR EAST TO WESTERN EUROPE, BRONZE AGE TO C. 300 A.D.
£813
African & Oceanic Art, Antiquities and Natural History
Auction: 5 May 2020 at 12:00 BST
Description
cast and worked bronze, the collection consists of a range of weaponry, hair pins and utilitarian objects; one Western European early Bronze Age flat axe, one Near Eastern middle Bronze Age spearhead with curled tang, one Luristan late Bronze Age axehead, one Near Eastern Bronze Age arrowhead, two Near Eastern Bronze Age dagger blades, one with integral tang, the other with perforations and seperate rivets, a pair of European Bronze Age hairpins, one with a spiral head the other with a cup design and two Roman doctors tools (12)
Dimensions
longest 24cm
Footnote
Provenance:
Private collection, Scotland
