Weapons and AmmunitionUnidentified culture3rd-2nd millennium BCE
Dagger Blade
3rd-late 2nd Millennium BCE
Dimensions
16.3 x 3.2 cm (6 7/16 x 1 1/4 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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