1st century BCE
Iron, bronze
70 cm (27 9/16 in.)
Copper-lead-arsenic alloy
2nd millennium BCEAnatolianBlade: 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 centuryFrenchLead
Bronze
6th-5th century BCEIranianSteel blade with chased and chiseled decoration, wooden handle with decorative inlays of metal, stone, coral, and mother of pearl
19th-20th centuryIndonesianStone
20th centuryChineseLeaded bronze
7th-6th century BCEGreekBronze
ChineseBronze
11th-8th century BCEChineseElectrotype of bronze original with gold and silver; inlaid, repoussé
19th-20th centuryMycenaeanIron
3rd-7th centuryRomanIron
Japanese