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Shaft-hole Axe Head with a Bird-Headed Demon, a Boar, and a Dragon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008

Shaft-hole Axe Head with a Bird-Headed Demon, a Boar, and a Dragon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2008
Shaft-hole Axe Head with a Bird-Headed Demon, a Boar, and a Dragon
Silver, gold foil
Central Asia (Bactria- Margiana)
Late 3rd- early 2nd millennium BC

Accession # 1982.5

The bird-headed demon depicted on both sides of the axe (rather than being double-headed) holds a winged dragon in one claw and a boar, which forms the cutting edge of the axe, in the other. The image possibly represents the bird-demon as a hero mastering chaos in the form of the boar and the dragon.

Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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