Bronze dagger blade - image 1

Middle Bronze Age I

Bronze dagger blade

Leaf-shaped blade with tang; three rivet-holes, two in base of blade. length 6 1/4in. (15.9cm)

Date

2000 - 1650 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5294

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4608, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1367, p. 385, New York: Gilliss Press.