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LOT 1667
Bronze Age Knife with Perforated Hilt
CIRCA 1300-800 B.C.
7 3/4 in. (8 in.) (158 grams total, knife: 19.7, 20.2 including stand).
With distinctive scooped blade and perforated hilt, originally hafted; some corrosion in places, end of hilt absent; mounted on custom-made stand with collector's label 'N13821'.
Provenance
Austrian private collection, acquired in the 1990s on the art market.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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