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Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,600
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
23 in. (613 grams, 58.5 cm).
The hilt with conical openwork hollow-cast pommel, grip decorated with horizontal grooves and twisted zig-zag pattern, crescentic guard decorated with waves, long blade with ridged mid-grip.
PROVENANCE:
Kuizenga collection, the Netherlands, acquired in Utrecht 21 December 1977.
with Bonhams, London, 7 December 2023, no.154.
LITERATURE:
See a similar sword in Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002, item 24, p.27.
FOOTNOTES:
This category of swords has been classified by Khorasani as 'swords with a mushroom pommel' and are usually characterised by a solid-cast hilt with a penannular guard, a ribbed or variously decorated grip and the conical hollow-cast mushroom pommel. Usually the blade is multi-fullered and tapers to a sharp tip. Moorey considers them to be from the end of the 2nd millennium B.C.
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