LOT 2390 Western Asiatic Hasanlu Dagger with Orn…
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9th century BC. An iron flanged dagger formed from one hammered piece of iron, hilt indented to fit fingers and with pointed top, destined to receive a bone or bronze pommel, a separated bronze band, now absent, originally placed around the short sides of the hilt projecting like a flange, still in place the three iron rivets which secured the band to the hilt, one at the top of the pommel, a second in the middle of the tang, the other at the height of the guard. Cf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.54ff, no.54. 344 grams, 46.5cm (18 1/4"). Ex important Dutch collection; acquired on the European art market in the 1970s. This dagger belongs to a large group of similar swords and daggers, primarily of iron, with a variety of hilt and blade types, excavated in the Middle East and especially in Hasanlu. Iron daggers are mentioned in Assyrian texts by the thirteenth century BC, and even in the Iliad, but evidence for their common use appeared more evident from 9th century BC. This kind of dagger appears in the hands of Assyrian warriors on Assyrian sculpted and painted monuments.
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