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A Stone Axe (Perforated Shoe-Last Celt)

2.800 CHF

Net for Export

Prehistory

South East or Central Europe, Middle to Late Neolithic, 5000 - 3900 B.C.

Stone

Length: 19.7 cm

Width: 5.7 cm

Depth: 3.6 cm

Asymmetrical shape. One flat narrow side with edges, and one convex narrow side without. D-shaped cross-section. Shaft hole placed towards axe neck; sharp hole edges. Smoothly polished surface. Transversely perforated “shoe-last celt” (German: “Schuhleistenkeil”) (i.e. originally unperforated adze blade, transformed into an perforated axe in a second phase). The form is current in South-Eastern and Central Europe. Rock material, brown flecked with black. Intact; a few scratches on surface, ancient chipped areas on perforated sides, in particular in next to perforation (probably caused by drilling action), as well as small surface damages in blade area.

PROVENANCE

Formerly priv. coll. Dr. Siegfried H. Zimmer (b. 1915 - d. 1984), ca 1950, see inventory list, no 115. Thereafter, priv. coll. Von Korff family, Germany; inherited by Julian von Korff before 1980, Germany. With Athena Münzen der Antike, München, prior 2004. Label  with findspot: "Grünberg, Schlesien" (present day Zielona Gora in Poland) and inv. no. "115" (now lost).

NOTE

U. Weller, Äxte und Beile erkennen, bestimmen, beschreiben. Bestimmungsbuch Archäologie 2 (München 2014) 38-39 No. 2.1.2.

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