Two Luristan Bronze Daggers
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Two Luristan Bronze Daggers
Early 1st Millenium B.C.
Both in excavated condition, the first with sharply tapering double-edged iron blade of flattened diamond section, and hilt of waisted form rising to an 'eared' bifurcated pommel with medial line on each side; the second with double-edge blade, and integral hilt of similar form to the last (2)
45.5 cm. and 30.7 cm. overall
Sold for £687 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance:
    11a, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 25 November 1959

    Literature;
    Hoffmeyer, cat. no. 11, pp. 23 and 24, fig. 4 (11a and 11b)

Category: Arms and Armour

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