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.
Mixed copper alloy, malachite inlays
2nd century CERomanMetal sword; scabbard with silver decoration
19th centuryBhutaneseCast bronze
15th-14th century BCEChineseCopper alloy
2nd millennium BCEIrishLead
RomanMetal
18th centuryIndianBronze
11th-8th century BCEChineseWatered steel, jade
17th centuryMughalWatered steel, gold
17th centuryPersianCast bronze
14th-11th century BCEChineseArsenical copper
3rd millennium BCESyro-Hittite