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New Gallery: Bronze Weaponry of Western Asia
Kamnaskires:
Thank you, Tracy!
Virgil H:
That is so amazing and in remarkedly good shape.
Virgil
Kamnaskires:
Thanks, Virgil.
SC:
There is no greater satisfaction in collecting than to identify the hitherto unidentified...
SC
Kamnaskires:
I’m quite pleased to add an important piece to my collection of ancient weaponry from Western Asia.
This one is an intact short sword from ancient NW Iran, and it dates to the early first millennium BC. It is an iconic type with a distinctive “double-ear” pommel.
https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=182497
Enlargement: https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16274/AE_Sword_04_d.jpg
It measures 54.76 cm (21.56”) – and thus makes the cut (sorry!) for being a sword and not a dirk. (If it had been 50 cm or less, it would technically be a dirk.)
Here are images of similar swords from Art of Ancient Iran (by Houshang Mahboubian) and Bronze-Hilted Iron Swords from Western Asia at the Department of Archaeology, Hiroshima University (by Hisashi Nojima, Yui Arimatsu, Masahiro Fujii, Susumu Murata, Hakuhiro Ichikawa, Shohei Fujii, Naoto Morimoto). I’ve added the red arrows to indicate two examples from Mahboubian that are quite similar to mine.
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