Bronze adze-axe

II Millennium B.C.
Iran

Cast. Adze-axe head with cylindrical shaft-hole decorated with three ridges. Convex cutting edges perpendicular to each other.
Length 6.6″(16.8 cm), Width 2.3″(5.8 cm).
For published examples of similar adze-axe see:
– Deshayes J. Les outils de bronze, de L’indus au Danube (IVe au IIe Millenaire). Paris, 1960, pl. XXXVIII, no. 2221; pl. LIII, no. 3123
– Moorey P.R.S Catalog of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, p.64.