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Flanged Axe Head
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
W. C. Burriss Young Cambridge MA bequest; to the Harvard University Art Museums 2002.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of W.C. Burriss Young
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