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English: Ceremonial axe (?) inlaid with silver showing a boar attacking a tiger, which is in turn attacking an ibex.
Date from 2500 until 2000 BC
date QS:P571,-2500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,-2500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,-2000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium bronze and silver inlay
Dimensions length: 17.8 cm (7 in)
dimensions QS:P2043,17.8U174728
Weight: 675.5 g (23.82 oz)
institution QS:P195,Q6373
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Department of Middle East, Room 52
Accession number
ME 123268 (1913,0314.11913,0314.1)
Object history Place of discovery: Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex.
Credit line 1913: given by Henry Oppenheimer
References
  • British Museum: online database: entry 367862
  • R. Maxwell-Hyslop, 'British Museum “axe” no. 123628: a Bactrian bronze', Bulletin of the Asia Institute, NS I (1987), pp. 17-26
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