LOT 316 Scythian Akinakes Dagger
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7th-4th century BC. An iron dagger with lozenge-section leaf-shaped blade, double-lobed lower guard, rectangular grip and T-shaped pommel. See Cernenko, E.V., The Scythians, 700-300 BC London, 1983, p.29; Head, D., The Achaemenid Persian Army, Stockport, 1992; Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, pl.9, nos.14-19. 316 grams, 32.5cm long (12 3/4"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed early 1960s-1990s. This akinakes, the short sword of Iranian people, shows correspondence with swords from the Caucas from 7th to 6th centuries, notably with a guard from a mound near a Steppe hut at Gudermes, with a dagger found in the Mineralvodsky burial ground, with another from a burial ground at the Sofronovsky spring near Kislovodsk, with a sword found in the Liysky burial ground, in South Ossetia and with other swords of the 6th century BC.
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