Due to the two openings in the handle, which gave it its name, this 'windowed' axe could be firmly attached with ropes to the wooden handle on which it was mounted with the sleeve.
It is a weapon of Mesopotamian origin (the "duckbill axe") which took its classical form on the Phoenician coast (compare with the gold examples from the Obelisk temple at Byblos). This explains why, long after the 'windowed' axe had fallen into disuse, it still appears in the hands of Phoenician gods such as Reshef and Astarte and, even later, as an attribute of Punic deities from Carthage.E.G