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Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
7 in. (111 grams, 17.8 cm).
Tapering blade with low mid-rib, butt extending to form a short tongue, originally probably containing three rivets. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
LITERATURE:
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 17.22.
FOOTNOTES:
The bronze industries of the Near East were the first to create beautiful examples of personal equipment, especially weapons. Many of them came from the copper-rich areas of Western Iran, where tribesmen buried their dead according to local tradition, well equipped with weaponry, in small but durable stone-built tombs.
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