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LOT 1160
Western Asiatic Bronze Dagger Blade Collection
2700-1200 B.C.
7 1/4 - 8 1/4 in. (344 grams total, 18.5 - 21 cm).
Comprising five leaf-shaped blades with raised midribs, one with pierced tang rivet hole, another with two rivet holes on the round shoulders. [5]
Provenance
Ex London art market, 1980-1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
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.III, types 5,22.
Footnotes
The shape of many blades with convex sides was undoubtedly the result of sharpening, but some may have been designed with this outline when a long narrow blade was needed for a special purpose. The daggers with large rivet holes in the round base probably originated by the Hyksos of the Egyptian Twelfth Dynasty.
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