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Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

Silver gold foil, Bronze Age, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

Rights: Public Domain

Ancient West Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and James N. Spear and Schimmel Foundation Inc. Gifts 1982

Birds Dragons Boars Demons

Bactria-Margiana, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex

Title: Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon

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Silver gold foil, Bronze Age, Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex.

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