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Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
20 1/2 in. (505 grams, 52 cm).
With solid cast hilt, straight horizontal guard with turquoise inlay; plain narrow grip with conical hollow cast mushroom pommel decorated with dots and lines; wide shallow midrib on the blade tapering to a sharp tip.
PROVENANCE:
Ex old English collection.
London art market, pre 2000.
Property of a London, UK, gentleman.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat 36, for type.
FOOTNOTES:
Moorey and Khorasani dated swords with mushroom pommels to the end of the second millennium B.C. The weapon belongs to Category IX of the Khorasani classification, the ones with a mushroom or bell-shaped pommel. A similar example is in the National Museum of Iran, Tehran.
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