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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.
ProvenanceDr. T.J. Arne, Sweden, 1934.
Private collection, Sweden, late 1930s.
with Stockholm Auktionsverk, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 June 2014, lot 2613.
Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002, p.34, no.31.
FootnotesThis 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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Triangular with thick rectangular-section midrib, rounded shoulders, narrow tip, short tang with hole for fixing pin for the organic grip; accompanied by a custom-made display stand. 285 grams total, 32 cm wide including stand
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This tanged bronze blade from Luristan belongs to a category of Luristan swords still in use in the Achaemenid Period, as proved by 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.
