Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

Object photograph·Csn2639·1927–1931

BA Weapons

Five corroded metal blades with curled tangs, each with a round numbered tag, shown side by side on a black background.
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn2639. Public domain (CC0).

Description

Five long metal blades lie side by side against a black background, each with a curled or hooked tang at the top and a raised central ridge down the blade. Round white number tags hang from threads on several of them. The surfaces are encrusted and pitted, and the blades differ in width and in the shape of their shoulders.

English, translated from the Swedish record

BA Weapons.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. BA Weapons.