Title: Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon
Object type: Axe
Date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Culture: Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex
Period: Bronze Age
Medium: Silver, gold foil
Dimensions: H. to top of bird-demon heads: 10.8 cm (4 1/2 in.); L. 15 cm (5 7/8 in.); Weight 581 g
Shaft hole: L. 5.1 cm (2 in.); W. 1.59 cm (5/8 in.)
Credit line: Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, and James N. Spear and Schimmel Foundation Inc. Gifts, 1982
Geography:      Bactria-Margiana     
Department: Ancient West Asian Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds, term: Dragons, term: Boars, term: Demons