Ax (Berdiche or Balta)
Unknown
ca. 1500 · Steel · Arms and Armor
This ax, with its long, faceted steel shaft and distinctively shaped blade, is typical of those carried by the Mamluks of Egypt and Syria in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1500
- Medium
- Steel
- Culture
- Syrian or Egyptian
- Department
- Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Bequest of George C. Stone, 1935
