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LOT 0337
Western Asiatic Bronze Sword
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
18 7/8 in. (743 grams, 48 cm).
The hilt with mushroom-shaped pommel, round grip, crescentic guard with double horizontal bars, long sloping blade with rounded mid-ridge.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
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, for the type.
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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