AMLASH BRONZE VESSEL AND AXE

Ca. 1200 - 900 BC. A pair of bronze objects, including, from left to right: a spouted vessel with a globular body on a flat base, a short collared neck with a plain everted rim, and a long tapering channelled spout secured to the shoulder by a cluster of domed rivet heads; and a socketed axe head expanding to a broad wedge-shaped blade.For similar see: R. Mathews, F. H. Nashli, The Archaeology of Iran from the paleolithic to the Achaemenid Empire, Fig. 11.66.Size: 85-100mm x 200-270mm; Weight: 960gProvenance: Private UK collection; From an old British collection formed in the 1980s.