Bronze Age Dagger Blade of Sant'Agata Type
15th-14th century B.C. A bronze dagger blade with scooped lateral profile, shoulder with lateral notches; complete with three fixing rivets. Cf. Various, Guerrieri Principi ed Eroi fra il Danubio e il Po dalla Preistoria all'Alto Medioevo, Trento, 2004, p.577, fig.4.6. 61 grams, 18.2cm (7 1/8 in.). Acquired from Gorny & Mosch, Munich, Germany.Collection of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman. The dagger resembles the Sant'Agata dagger type, found in the Late Bronze Age graves of North-East Italy (grave 24 of the Necropolis of the Olmo di Nogara, near Verona). In this necropolis, 41 warrior graves have been found, in which the short dagger is usually accompanied by a long slashing sword of Nogara type.