This article is the first scientific publication of a stone hammer axe with a three-line inscription currently held in the USA and long belonged to the huge collection of antiquities assembled by the Borgia family. A third-millennium bce text, engraved within a rectangular case, identifies the artefact as a private item, perhaps offered in honour to an obscure deity.
Between private devotional practices and personalisation. An unusual inscribed tool from the Borgia collection
Di Paolo Silvana;
2022
Abstract
This article is the first scientific publication of a stone hammer axe with a three-line inscription currently held in the USA and long belonged to the huge collection of antiquities assembled by the Borgia family. A third-millennium bce text, engraved within a rectangular case, identifies the artefact as a private item, perhaps offered in honour to an obscure deity.File in questo prodotto:
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