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LOT 1048

Estimate
GBP (£) 400 - 600
EUR (€) 460 - 690
USD ($) 540 - 800

LURISTAN DAGGER WITH MUSHROOM POMMEL
13TH CENTURY B.C.
16 1/8 in. (491 grams, 41 cm).

A bronze short dagger with double-edged blade, central rib to both sides, a slender fullered handle with a high conical pommel.

PROVENANCE:
UK private collection before 2000.
UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.393, cat.31, for similar type.

FOOTNOTES:
The sword has a solid cast hilt with a straight horizontal guard. However, its main characteristic is the exaggerated mushroom pommel, which resembles the type dated by Moorey to the end of the 2nd millennium B.C. According to some authors, these swords were produced in Northern Iran and dated between 1400-1200 B.C.

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