Central European Bronze Age Votive Dagger with Hilt

16TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.

15 3/4 in. (235 grams, 40 cm).

A bronze hilted dagger; blade with waisted profile and raised midrib to both faces, crescentic guard and ribbed grip, domed pommel.

Provenance

Private collection G.R Coope, 1930s-2011.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.

Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Farley, J., ‘The deposition of miniature weaponry in Iron Age Lincolnshire’ in Pallas 86 | 2011, 97-121, fig.2, for for Bronze Age votive weapons; for similar specimen not in reduced dimensions, Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 2, London, 2004, p.16 no.13; Kacsό, C., ‘Das Bronzeschwert von Sighetu Marmatįei. Beitrage zur Kenntis der bronzezeitlichen Gewässerfunde in 'Rumänien (Bronze Sword of Sighetu Marmatįei. The Contribution to the Bronze Age Water Finds in Romania)’, in Nitra, 2015, pp.59-72, p.62, fig.3.

CONDITION

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