Copper alloy dagger blade - image 1

Early Bronze Age II

Copper alloy dagger blade

Leaf-shaped blade without tang and two rivet-holes. 3 7/8in. (9.8cm)

Date

2200 - 1800 BC

Accession No.

74.51.5289

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

  • From Cyprus

References

  • Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4603, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1362, p. 384, New York: Gilliss Press.