Ten Bronzes, Luristan and Caucasus Region, circa 1500-800 B.C.

comprising a bronze adze with long flaring blade and pointed oval shaft-hole with beaked projection at the butt, two axe-heads with curving blades and conical projections on the shaft-hole, one with addorsed bird heads, an axe-head with crescentic blade and knobbed shaft, a mace-head of hollow domed form with lozenge-shaped ornaments in relief, a similar mace-head, a cylindrical handle or cudgel, two globular openwork jingle pendants, and a bronze sword with centrally ribbed blade and conical butt encircled by ribs; together with a Byzantine eagle finial and a copper coin.

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, nos. 107 and 117, for the first nine
Habib Anavian, New York, May 4th, 1979, for the sword