Bronze combat axe-celt

Late Bronze Age, 1200 – 1100 B.C.
South-Eastern Europe

Eastern Transylvania type. Hollow-cast. Rectangular form, with oval socket with reinforced rim, two external handle-loops on vertical seams at top. Cutting plane with parabola outline, vertex is in between handles.
Length 3.8″ (9.7 cm).
For similar published archaeological examples see:
– Mensch, Kultur und Gesellschaft von der Kupferzeit bis zur frühen Eisezeit im Nördlichen Eurasien (Beiträge zu Ehren zum 60. Geburtstag von Eugen Sava) =Man, culture, and society from the Copper Age until the Early Iron Age in Northern Eurasia (Contributions in honor of the 60th anniversary of Eugen Sava) /Nat. Museum of History of Moldova, Freie Univ. Berlin; ed.: Aurel Zanoci [et al.]. –Chişinău: S. n., 2016, fig.7, 1.
– 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. 91: 5