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LOT 1031
Luristan Bronze Dirk
10TH CENTURY B.C.
17 1/8 in. (474 grams, 43.5 cm).
With triangular blade and flat mid-rib, flanged hilt for the insert of a wood or bone inlay, hilt with expanded guard and crescent-shaped pommel.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 8.
Footnotes
This type of dirk belongs to the type III of Medvedskaya classification and is very common among daggers and dirks attributed to Luristan. The same scholar suggests that the dating for the whole series of type III daggers is an inscription on a type III dirk with the name of Marduk Nadin Ahhe (1100-1083 B.C.).
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