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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.

CONDITION

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LOT 0337

Western Asiatic Bronze Sword

Sold for (Inc. bp): £520

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