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LOT 1661
Talish Bronze Blade
13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
19 3/4 in. (595 grams, 50 cm).
Comprising a pointed blade with shallow midrib and concave sides, square shoulders with transverse horizontal ribbed guard, square-section tang with later mushroom pommel.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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.V, type 44a, for a similar sword from Talish.
FootnotesThese swords developed in the Period of the Wars of the Assyrian Empire. One may also compare the square shoulders and the ribs at the junction of hilt and blade here visible (and also visible on blades from Talish) with the Gandzha-Karabagh culture swords of Eastern Transcaucasia.
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