Weapons and AmmunitionUnidentified culture3rd-2nd millennium BCE

Dagger Blade

3rd-late 2nd Millennium BCE

Classification

Weapons and Ammunition

Technique

Cast, lost-wax process

Medium

Copper alloy

Culture

Unidentified culture

Period

Bronze Age

Century

3rd-2nd millennium BCE

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Department

Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics

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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