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LOT 0913

Sold for (Inc. bp): £908

GREEK TROJAN BRONZE SWORD BLADE
12TH-10TH CENTURY BC
23 1/2" (451 grams, 59.5cm).

A very long Troy type Bronze Age rapier with narrow triangular blade, thick rounded midrib, rounded tip, scooped shoulders with lateral flanges, round-section tang with flattened finial.

PROVENANCE:
London private collection, acquired 1980s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Branigan, K. Aegean Metalwork of the Early and Middle Bronze Age, Oxford, 1974, plate 11, item 483 ascribed to Troy (Anatolian Troad).

CONDITION