Elamite Bronze Dagger with Decorated Hilt

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

9 5/8 in. (165 grams, 24.5 cm).

Leaf-shaped blade with a separately cast hilt; blade tapering to a point, incised with three lines of incised linear decoration; hilt with flared guard, pierced with a pin and raised geometric pattern.

Provenance

Acquired on the UK art market, 1990s.
Private collection, New York, USA.

Literature

Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.375, Cat.2, inventory no.668, for type.

CONDITION

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