Copper alloy dagger blade - image 1

Early Bronze Age II

Copper alloy dagger blade

Leaf-shaped blade with no tang and three rivet holes. 6 1/8in. (15.6cm)

Date

2200 - 1800 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5287

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4601, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1360, pp. 383-84, New York: Gilliss Press.