File:Minoan Labrys1.jpg
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English: Votive double ax Early Aegean, MinoanBronze Age, Late Minoan IA Period, about 1550–1500 B.C. Gold double axe composed of thin sheet gold mounted on a hollow gold shaft and outlined by bands of five incised lines. On left blade, inscription of four signs in undeciphered Linear A; posssible an invocation to the goddess Demeter. Two pierced holes on right blade. The axe was deposited in a sacred cave as a votive offering. |
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