Openwork Axe Head with Lion Attack

first half 15th century BCE (New Kingdom)

9.7 cm 45 cm 1.8 cm

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This openwork axe-head depicts on both its sides a lion seizing a goat by the hindquarters, while the goat turns back to look at the lion. The lion and aoat both possess incised features, and there is some modeling on the faces of the lion. Both of the two longer sides of th...

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29987
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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