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LOT 0258

North-West Persian Bronze Dagger

EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

11 1/2 in. (298 grams total, 29.2 cm high including stand).

With long tapered blade, rounded shoulders and broad flattened mid-rib, tapered square sectioned tang pierced at the tip.

Provenance

Dr. T.J. Arne, Sweden, 1934.
Private collection, Sweden, late 1930s.
with Stockholm Auktionsverk, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 June 2014, lot 2613.

Literature

Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002, p.34, no.31.

Footnotes

This tanged bronze blade from Luristan belongs to a category of Luristan swords still in use in the Achaemenid Period, as proved from a blade with a perished handle (probably bone or wood) of the same type, in the National Museum of Iran (2694/15633). Examples without inscriptions like our model have been classified by Grotkamp-Schepers in the Solingen Museum as pieces from Luristan.

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LOT 0258

North-West Persian Bronze Dagger

Sold for (Inc. bp): £468

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