Circa 10th-8th BC Ancient Luristan Bronze Heavy Double Axe-Head Luristan Empire

Description

A finely modelled Luristan cast bronze double axe head,
A Luristan axe head cast from bronze with bright green patination covering the surface. The weapon features a short cylindrical shaft hole, with a flattened top which broadens to the horizontal convex cutting edge with a vertical blade to the other side. At the bottom of the shaft is a flattened thick rim which once would of held a wooden hilt. Some beautiful blue patination is visible to the underneath of the axe
Luristan bronze comes from the province of Lorestan, a region situated in the Zagros Mountains. In ancient times a number of nomadic populations, such as the Medes, the Kassites and eventually the Persians, settled in the area. Due to the nomadic nature of the tribes, none of the Luristan bronzes were of great size, since it was required for them to be light and portable. Their artwork mainly comprises ornaments, vessels and weapons. Most of the Luristan bronze items have been recovered in funerary contexts, suggesting they had a ceremonial function.
Condition: Excellent Condition. Blade is covered in beautiful polychromatic patination.
Date:
Circa 1800-600 BC
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Ancient Ritual Iron Battle Axe Weapon
Near Eastern Scythian Warrior Axe
c. 600 BC to 400 BC
Item: Ancient Scythian Ceremonial or Votive Iron Axe
Material: Iron
Length: 5.5” (140 mm)
Height:
1.45” (37 mm)
Weight: 5.3 oz. (150 gr.)
Civilization:
Ancient Scythian Peoples
Est. Date: 600 BC—400 BC
Condition:
Well preserved, it shows the heavy pitting and oxidation (rusting) of a genuine artifact that has been buried for about 2,500 years.
The item has been treated with electrolysis and thus has a black coloration.
It is protected by a museum approved, micro-crystalline wax by Renaissance Wax to reduce further oxidation.
DETAILS
This historic, museum-quality, Scythian Ceremonial Warrior Battle Axe dates to about
600 BC—400 BC.
It is made of iron and was made by the Scythians to be attached to a wooden handle via tethered binding.
Its small size suggests it was intended
for ceremonial or votive purposes and
not
made for or used in actual warfare.
It is likely that it was part of a large burial tomb for a noble Scythian warrior who fell in battle about 2,500-years-ago.
This artifact has been professionally cleaned and treated with an electrolysis process developed and formulated for ancient metal preservation.  The patina shows beautiful traits only found in authentic ancient weapons that have been buried for thousands of years.
From a very early period, the ancient Iranian peoples have been historically documented to exist in two separate continuums - a western civilization (Persia) and an eastern civilization (Scythia).
In the sixth, fifth and fourth centuries BCE, the Persians discerned several nomadic tribes on the Central-Asian steppe; they called them
Sakâ
. We know the names of these tribes from Persian royal inscriptions and can add information from Herodotus and other Greek authors.
See details below.
SCYTHIANS
Scythian, also called
Scyth, Saka, and Sacae
, were members of a nomadic people, originally of Iranian stock, known from as early as the 9
th
century BCE who migrated westward from Central Asia to southern Russia and Ukraine in the 8
th
and 7
th
centuries BCE. The Scythians founded a rich, powerful empire centered on what is now Crimea. The empire survived for several centuries before succumbing to the Sarmatians during the period from the 7
th
century BCE to the 2
nd
century CE.
The
Scythians
were contemporaries of the Greeks and greatly feared by them. Much of what we know about them is based on accounts by Herodotus, the founding father of history, who wrote about the Scythians in the 5th century B.C. Other information about them has been gleaned from archeological excavations and accounts from other Greek historians.
Herodotus wrote extensively about the Scythians an it is not clear how much was based on first-hand observation or second-hand accounts, but the latter seems most likely. It is also not clear how extensively Herodotus traveled in the Black Sea-Dnieper River heartland of the Scythians.
On one journey around 450 B.C., he probably reached Olbia, 40 miles west of the Dnieper River.
Herodotus described the Scythians as savage warriors who committed many atrocities. Some think that Herodotus gave the Scythians an unjustified, prejudiced bad rap, but in all probability, they committed no more atrocities than the Romans, Persians, Egyptians or even the Greeks themselves.
Although they had no written language many scholars believe the Scythians spoke an Iranian language. German Scythian expert Hermann Parzinger told National Geographic:
“From ancient sources we know the names of several tribes, and they seem to be Iranian names. There were different groups, but they had the same way of life and same burial customs.”
For a period of 30 years in the 6th century B.C., Herodotus wrote, the Scythians burst out the Black Sea region and across the Caucasus and raided communities in Asia Minor and the Middle East. They migrated as far westward as Germany and captured land formerly controlled by the Medes in present-day western Iran and by the Assyrians in Mesopotamia. The pillaged cities as far away as Palestine and Babylon before they were finally driven back by the Medes.
At the height of their power in the 4th century B.C., the Scythians controlled an empire that covered much of what is now southern Russia and the Ukraine and stretched 4,000 miles from eastern Europe to Mongolia.
Scythian Warriors and Weapons
According to Herodotus, the Scythians were ruthless and nearly invincible warriors who made cloaks from their victim’s scalps and drank from their skulls and sacrificed one out of every hundred prisoner of war. Wealthy Scythians reportedly gilded the insides of the skulls of their enemies and used them as drinking cups.
Scythians are credited with creating the first truly effective cavalry and employing tactics described as an ancient version of the
blitzkrieg
. They attacked their enemies on horseback and cut down their enemies with weapons shaped like this smaller, ritual example. They were difficult to fight against because they traveled swiftly on horseback and their nomadic ways made them difficult to attack and even find their base of operations.
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