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Sold for (Inc. bp): £845
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
16 3/4 in. (477 grams, 42.5 cm).
A short sword or dagger with slender triangular blade, low round midrib, penannular guard, scooped shoulders, columnar grip with three gusseted hoops, truncated-conical pommel decorated with parallel horizontal circles.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, items 42 and 43, for similar.
FOOTNOTES:
These kind of bronze daggers or dirks, typical of Marlik culture, were cast in a one piece mould according to Negahban, although in some specimens the penannular guard was later cast into the blade. The separate sets of encircling ribs on the grips are again typical of swords from the Marlik area.
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