TWO AXE BLADES Bronze with green patina; 19 x 32 cm and 5.5 x 8 cm Egypt, Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, circa 1974-1700 BC Two Middle Kingdom Bronze axe blades. Comprising one of elongated crescentic form with three attachment tangs, each pierced for bindings; and one of crescentic form with three atatchment tangs, each with single piercing. Dynasty 12th, circa 1974-1700 B.C.E. For discussion of similar axe blades cf. W.C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, vol. I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York, 1953, pp. 282-283, fig. 185. Provenance Former Alton Edward Mills collection, Switzerland, 1882, then by descent until 1970 Christie's London, Antiquities, April 2015, lot 32 Comparative literature ROEDER, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin, 1996 Egypt, The Leiden Collection in Bologna, IV.3-IV.4