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LOT 1099
Luristan Short Sword Blade
CIRCA 13TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
15 in. (880 grams total, 38 cm wide including stand).
With a broad, lentoid-section blade and wide raised flange down centre, rounded tip, straight sides, well marked shoulders with narrow tang, one hole for rivet to attach an organic hilt; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1980-1990s.
From the private collection of H.N., Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire, UK.
Literature
See Maxwell-Hyslop, R., Daggers and swords in Western Asia: a Study from Prehistoric Times to 600BC, in Iraq, Volume 8, 1946, pp.1-65, pl.II, type 12.
Footnotes
This kind of weapon was used in the early 2nd millennium B.C. in Mesopotamia and in Syria and as late as the mid-first millennium in Luristan.
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