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Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
12 3/8 in. (338 grams, 31.5 cm).
With ogival blade featuring a square sectioned mid-rib, tubular handle with two horizontal grooves of circular shape and disc pommel.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.IV no.76, for a detail on an alabaster relief, Southern Mesopotamia, early 2nd millennium B.C.; pl.V, no.59, from Kafan, X I-IX centuries B.C., for the type.
FOOTNOTES:
The dagger represents an uncommon type with its disk pommel and short grip but with a foliate blade of a spearhead. Similar types were already visible in the Mesopotamian reliefs of early 19th century, but pommel disc daggers and foliate blades are a combination that was archaeologically documented on Caucasian daggers until the 9th century B.C., employed by the Urartian warriors.
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