CNG 88, Lot: 2193. Estimate $400. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Bronze axe. Elamite, circa 19th-18th centuries BC. Long socket with rounded protuberance and knob at top. Blade projecting from top of shaft and curving to create a crescent-shaped edge. Width: 10.4cm. For similar examples see Oscar White Muscarella, Bronze and iron: Ancient Near Eastern artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1988), pp. 234-5, no. 334; 7000 years of Iranian art (Washington, 1964), p. 65, no. 136 (inscribed with the name of Addakhushu, the Elamite prince [sukkal]). Thick encrustation. Scarce type.