Early Bronze Age III
Copper alloy dagger blade
Leaf-shaped blade with tang; two rivet-holes in the base of blade. The rivet in one hole is preserved. 4 3/16in. (10.6cm)
Date
2025 - 1975 BC
Accession No.
74.51.5295
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Provenance
- From Cyprus
References
- Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4611, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1370, p. 385, New York: Gilliss Press.