CNG 88, Lot: 2192. Estimate $250. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Bronze fenestrared axe. Near Eastern, early 2nd millennium. Semi-ovoid form, with two apertures between socket and blade. Maximum length: 8.7cm. See Oscar White Muscarella, Bronze and iron: Ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1988), p. 386, no. 510. Rough green patina.

Such “eye axes” are found predominantly in Syria and Palestine, to a lesser extent in Anatolia and Mesopotamia.