Western Asiatic Bronze Dagger

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

12 1/4 in. (78 grams, 31 cm).

Single-edged, curved with scooped shoulder and flat tang.

Provenance

Ex German collection, Cologne, 1980-1990s.

Literature

See Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.I, no.23, from Ugarit (Ras Shamra).

Footnotes

In the middle of the 2nd millennium B.C., combat knives were widely used in Palestine and Syria. Some of them reproduced in local forms and constructions of the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C., others had a concave blade with a humpbacked back or S-shaped blades which, apparently, should be associated with influences from Asia Minor influence.

CONDITION

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