Details
Artist | Luristan, Iranian |
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Title |
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Date | 1800 - 1600 BCE |
Medium | bronze |
Dimensions | Overall: 2 1/8 × 4 × 13/16 inches (5.4 × 10.2 × 2.1 cm) |
Credit Line | City of Detroit Purchase |
Accession Number | 28.183 |
Department | Ancient Near Eastern Art |
On View | Ancient Middle East Gallery, Level 1 (see map) |
Provenance
(American Colony Stores of Jerusalem);
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, p. 57 [similar types of axe-heads discussed and dated], p. 56, (fig. 8) (ill.).