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LOT 0912

Sold for (Inc. bp): £363

GREEK AEGEAN BRONZE SWORD BLADE
2000-1900 BC
16 1/4" (231 grams, 41cm).

A broad tongue-shaped Bronze Age blade with median flat-section rib, rounded tip, waisted ricasso at the shoulders with piercing, short square-section tang.

PROVENANCE:
London private collection, acquired 1980s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Branigan, K. Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age, Oxford, 1974, item 486.

CONDITION