13th-6th century BC. A bronze dagger with lentoid-section tongue-shaped blade, integral tapering hilt with flared finial, recess to each face to accept a bone scale forming the grip. See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006. 215 grams, 31.5cm (12 1/2"). Property of a London collector; from her family's private collection; formerly with a London gallery; acquired in the 1990s.