File:BMAC, Axe with eagle headed demon and animals, 3rd - early 2nd millennium BCE.jpg
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English: BMAC Axe With Eagle-Headed Demon And Animals, from Central Asia (Bactria-Margiana), late 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC. Français : Hache cérémonielle.Nord de l'Afghanistan, Bactriane, fin du IIe - début du IIe millénaire av. n. è. Argent et dorures. Ensemble fonte à cire perdue similaire au N°20, page 104 Catalogue : Afghanistan : Une histoire millénaire. Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002. ISBN 2-7118-4413-7 |
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Date | between late 3rd millennium and early 2nd millennium BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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silver medium QS:P186,Q1090 , gilt silver |
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Dimensions |
length: 15 cm (5.9 in) dimensions QS:P2043,15U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
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Current location |
Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art, gallery 403 |
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Accession number |
1982.5 |
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Place of discovery |
Place of discovery: Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (in present-day Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan). |
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Object history |
1982: purchased from Mehdi Mahboubian, New York |
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References | Metropolitan Museum of Art: entry 329076 as Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon. Bronze Age, ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C. (accession number: 1982.5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | self-made by PHGCOM, photographed at the MET in 2006 |
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Categories:
- Heads of birds with pointed beaks in the Bronze Age
- Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
- Sculptures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Ancient Near East art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Animal style
- 3rd-millennium BC works
- 2nd-millennium BC works
- Archaeological silver objects
- Sculptures of the Ancient Near East
- Master of Animals