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LOT 1086
Luristan Bronze Dirk
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
13 in. (188 grams, 33 cm).
Cast in one piece, with narrow blade having almost parallel edges, flanged hilt with narrow grip widening slightly towards the ricasso, decorated from five parallel grooves, and running smoothly into the blade.
ProvenanceEx German collection, Cologne, 1980-1990s.
LiteratureCf.identical type in Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.378, cat.8.
FootnotesThe dirk belongs to the type III in the Medvedskaya classification, but with a smallest hand guard at the base. The dating of type III to the 12th century B.C., suggested by Medvedskaya and confirmed by Khorasani, was based on the series of dirks with an inscription of the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar I and of the name of Marduk Nadin Ahhe on similar types of daggers.
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3rd-4th century A.D. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £195
Composed of four arms tipped with triangular spikes. 29 grams, 86 mm
Acquired on the German art market around 2000. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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