5th century BCE
3.5 x 1.1 cm (1 3/8 x 7/16 in.)
Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964. Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Arsenical copper
3rd millennium BCEAnatolianBronze
10th-8th century BCEIranianBronze
13th-11th century BCEChineseLead
GreekIron
JapaneseBronze handle holding iron blade
9th-8th century BCEIranianArsenical copper
3rd millennium BCESyro-HittiteBronze
2nd millennium BCEAnatolianCopper alloy
2nd millennium BCEEuropeanSteel, jade
19th centuryIndianLead