3823. Two types of fenestrated battle-axes, piercing weapons that could penetrate helmets and armor. The first is the so-called Eye-axe because of the prominence of its two holes which look like hollow eyes. Second is the elongated form, the so-called duck-bill axe, an even more effective piercing weapon. This is the type of battle-axe that […]

3826. SWORDS AND A DAGGER, C. 1500 B.C. MESOPOTAMIA ‘But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did girt it under his raiment upon his right thigh’ Judges III:16

3830. IRON MADE LAMP-STAND, C. 8TH. C. BC

3832. NARROW SOCKETED AXES, ANATOLIA OR LEVANT OF SECOND TO EARLY FIRST MILLLENNIUM BC , ‘When thou shalt beseige a city a long time, in making war against it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, but thou shalt not cut them down; […]