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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Language: | English |
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The University of Chicago Press
2015
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Bulletin of ASOR
Year: 2015, Issue: 373, Pages: 139-150 |
IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology KBK Europe (East) KBL Near East and North Africa TB Antiquity TC Pre-Christian history ; Ancient Near East |
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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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