Western Asiatic Integral Hilted Bronze Short Sword

LATE 3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

17 1/8 in. (713 grams, 43.5 cm).

With a broad, lentoid-section flat blade, rounded tip, sloping sides, well marked shoulders with wide but short tang.

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

Cf. Inassa, M., 'Daggers in ancient Mesopotamia' in Journal of Archaeological Research and Studies, vol.2, March 2018, pp.1-27, fig.1, p.26.

Footnotes

The sword finds similarity with the one from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. This is the most primitive form of dagger, consisting of a simple, pointed blade having slightly convex outline shoulders sloping to a short tang which has no rivets, and was probably hafted to wood with bitumen.

CONDITION

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