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Adze blade

Scytho-Persian
7th–4th century B.C.

Medium/Technique Bronze
Dimensions Legacy dimension: Length: .156
Credit Line Maria Antoinette Evans Fund
Accession Number30.557
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsTools and equipment

DescriptionAdze-head, crouching lion on haft. Reddish bronze, heavily encrusted.
ProvenanceBy 1930, acquired in Iran, probably by Ayoub Rabenou, Paris; 1930, sold by Rabenou, through Arthur Upham Pope (b. 1881 - d. 1969), Paris, to the MFA [see note]. (Accession Date: August 7, 1930)

NOTE: MFA accession nos. 30.544-30.637 were purchased from Arthur Upham Pope for $15,000, plus a $2250 commission. According to Pope, the majority of the group belonged to Rabenou.