3823. NARROW SOCKETED AXES, Anatolia or Levant of second to early first milllennium, ‘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; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?’ Deuteronomy XX:19
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