WESTERN ASIATIC AXE HEAD WITH LION. Ca. 1000 - 900 BC. A bronze axe head featuring a tubular socket with thickened collars around its openings and two horizontal raised ribs in the midsection. The blade gently flares outward to a curved cutting edge. Along the back of the socket is a crouching lion with an elongated body and a slightly raised tail. For similar see: Bronze Iron Weapons of Luristan, fig. 5, pg. 212, Manouchehr Moshtagh khorasani Antiguo oriente 7 - 2009 (decoration). Size: 120mm x 60mm; Weight: 350g Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old Canadian collection of F. N., Ontario, formed in the 1980s.