From Byblos to Vapheio: Fenestrated Axes between the Aegean and the Levant

The find of an early Mycenaean tholos tomb at Vapheio (Tsountas 1889) brought to light two unusual objects: a seal showing a person in long robes holding a fenestrated ax, and the Vapheio ax, the latter a unique and heavy fenestrated ax with no parallels in the Aegean to date. Scholars from Evans to...

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Published in:Bulletin of ASOR
Main Author: Yasʿur-Landau, Assaf 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: The University of Chicago Press 2015
In: Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2015, Issue: 373, Pages: 139-150
RelBib Classification:HH Archaeology
KBK Europe (East)
KBL Near East and North Africa
TB Antiquity
TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East
Further subjects:B Vapheio
B Byblos (Extinct city)
B symbolism of rulership
B Aegean iconography
B axes
B Aegean Sea
B Middle Bronze Age
B Levant
B interactions between the Aegean and the Levant
B MIDDLE East antiquities
B Bronze Age
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