A European bronze sword
Late Bronze Age, circa 12th-10th Century B.C.
The long leaf-shaped blade with raised rounded mid-rib, decorated with a band of four incised lines following the outline of the blade along its length, joined with two rivets to the hilt with Y-shaped hand guard and concave disk-shaped pommel, 69cm long注脚Provenance:
Professor G. R. Coope (1930-2011) collection, England, acquired in 2000; and thence by descent.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 3 April 2014, lot 78.
Private collection, UK, acquired at the above sale.

For similar, see H. Born and S. Hansen, Helme und Waffen Alteuropas: Sammlung Axel Guttmann, IX, Mainz, 2001,p. 198, abb. 151, AG 1007.