3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

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A GROUP OF WESTERN ASIATIC MINIATURE BRONZE SWORDS, DAGGERS AND AXE HEADS
3RD-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Comprising a small dagger with flange-type guard and 'ear' pommel, 7½ in. (19 cm.) long; nine adze-axes with their two blades at right angles, 2 in. (5 cm.) long max.; three spike-butted axe heads, 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) long max.; two sheet bronze dagger silhouettes, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) long max.; seven other swords including four with 'ear' pommels and one with flanged hilt, 5½ in. (14 cm.) long max.; and a pair of silver pendant drop loop earrings, circa 8th Century B.C., 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) long max. (24)

Provenance

Acquired between 1986 and 1988, Frankfurt.

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Lot Essay

Dagger silhouettes cut from sheet metal would have been put in tombs as a substitute for the real life-size weapon. Cf. P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, p. 69, pl. 5, no. 44 for similar.

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