North Western Persian Bronze Dagger
Early 1st millennium B.C. With long tapered blade, rounded shoulders and broad flattened mid-rib, tapered square sectioned tang pierced at the tip. Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 1, London, 2002, p.34, no.31.
298 grams total, 29.2 cm high including stand (11 1/2 in.).
Dr. T.J. Arne, Sweden, 1934.Private collection, Sweden, late 1930s.with Stockholm Auktionsverk, Stockholm, Sweden, 9 June 2014, lot 2613. This tanged bronze blade from Luristan belongs to a category of Luristan swords still in use in the Achaemenid Period, as proved from a blade with a perished handle (probably bone or wood) of the same type, in the National Museum of Iran (2694/15633). Examples without inscriptions like our model have been classified by Grotkamp-Schepers in the Solingen Museum as pieces from Luristan. [For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price]