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Bronze double-ax
The hole at the end of the shaft indicates that these pieces probably served as pendants. Double-ax pendants were common not only in Crete but also in Greece, from the Protogeometric through the Archaic period.
Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1940...
c. 1700-1450 B.C.
Bronze
4.5 x 4.2cm
40.11.6
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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Permanent collection