Overall: 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
Bronze
6th-5th century BCEIranianLead
Blade: steel with gold-filled incised decoration and inscriptions; handle: braided brass wire over fabric on a wooden core; guard: cast brass and gilt bronze, with profile portrait of Lafayette enframed in draped flags; lion-headed pummel: cast brass with gilt bronze decoration
18th centuryFrenchCast copper
3rd millennium BCEIndianLead
Lead
Lead
Iron
JapaneseLead
3rd century BCEEgyptianLead
Arsenical bronze
3rd millennium BCECycladicCast bronze with gilded silver and engraved steel
19th centuryFrench