CIRCA LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

Details

A LURISTAN BRONZE AND STONE DAGGER
CIRCA LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) long

Provenance

Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller (1930-2016), Geneva, acquired between 1960-1965.
Bronzes Iraniens: Collection Jean Paul Barbier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 May 1970, lot 198.
with The Merrin Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, U.S., acquired from the above, 1989.
A Distinguished Private Collection; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 4 June 2015, lot 152.

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Lot Essay

The dagger is cast in one section with the lanceolate blade raised along its mid-rib. The hilt is adorned with hatched and zigzag bands along the perimeter and inlaid with white stone on both sides at the lower end, fastened along the length by three pins, two now missing. The hilt terminates in ear-shaped pommels.
For a nearly identical example in New York, but inlaid with bone, see pl. XXVIII in E. Herzfeld, Iran in the Ancient East: Archaeological Studies Presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston.

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