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LOT 0294
Amarlu Bronze Dagger with Bell-shaped Pommel
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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