Bronze battle axe-celt

Late Bronze Age, 1600 – 1300 B.C.
South-Eastern Europe

Cast in two part mold; elongated body with hexahedral cross section, oval socket with reinforced rim, two external handle-loops on vertical seams at top. Decorative band of triangles in between them.  Height 5.2″ (13.2 cm).
For similar published archaeological examples see:
– Klochko V. I., Weaponry of societies of the Northern Pontic culture circle: 5000-700 BC. Poznań : Adam Mickiewicz University, Institute of Eastern Studies, Institute of Prehistory, 2001, Fig. 94: 3
-Lescov A.M. Jung-und spätbronzezeit-liche Depotfunde im nördlichen Schwarzmeergebiet, 1- Prähistorische Bronzefunde, München, 1981, 113 S.