RARE BRONZE AGE FLAT AXE HEAD ON STAND

1200-800 BC, Bronze Age Luristan..Rare bronze axe with flat, broad blade, which tapers to a cuvillinear tang featuring horn-shaped guard. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Superb condition; on custom-made stand. Size: H:200mm / W:100mm ; 268g. Provenance: Property of a London gallery, previously in old British collection formed in the 1980s.