11th century B.C. A bronze dirk with crescent-shaped handle cast on the blade, lentoid-section leaf-shaped blade, waisted hilt with horizontal lateral flanges on each face to secure an organic insert, two more holes for attachment of the organic hilt. Cf. Medvedskaya, L.N., Iran: Iron Age I, British Archaeological report 126, London, 1982; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 10. 202 grams, 39 cm (15 3/8 in.) UK private collection before 2000. UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. A dirk with handle akin to those of the category type II classified by Medvedskaya (1982. no.70). According to this scholar the basis for the dating of daggers and dirks are the inscriptions of the names of the Kings on some of them. Khorasani evidences a dagger of this type with the name of the Isin (Babylonia) King Marduk-Nadin Ahhe (1100-1083 B.C.) [No Reserve]Condition Report: Fine condition.