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LOT 1520
Bronze Age Rivetted Dagger
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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