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LOT 0300
Western Asiatic Bronze Short Sword with Mushroom Pommel
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C
22 1/4 in. (1.04 kg, 56.5 cm).
The hilt with mushroom-shaped pommel, round grip, crescentic guard, long sloping blade with rectangular sectioned mid-ridge.
Provenance
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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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LOT 0300
Western Asiatic Bronze Short Sword with Mushroom Pommel
Sold for (Inc. bp): £780
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