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SHM 20563 MMLur 003 :: dirk

Object description: Cast in one piece. Low rim-flanged hilt, slightly concave guard sides. Rivet hole In flared pommel and in guard. Blade tapers to point, convex sides with jagged edges beginning below ricasso. Somewhat raised midrib from ricasso to point.

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Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 003

Serie nummer

305

MM Lur

Object

dirk

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Iran

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Bronze; Metal

Material, Swedish

Brons

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast in one piece. Low rim-flanged hilt, slightly concave guard sides. Rivet hole In flared pommel and in guard. Blade tapers to point, convex sides with jagged edges beginning below ricasso. Somewhat raised midrib from ricasso to point.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

1100 BC

Name - Acquired from

Arne, Ture J:son (1879-05-07 - 1965-08-02), archaeologist

Description: Ture Arne Johnson, born May 7, 1879 in Söderköping, died 2 August 1965, Swedish archaeologist.
PhD in Uppsala in 1914 with the thesis "La Suède et l'Orient, études sur les relations archéologiques de la Suède et de l'Orient pendant l'Age des Vikings". Arne's field of work was mainly the contacts between Scandinavia and the early Russia.
Source - http: collections.smvk.se
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: sv.wikipedia.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Statens Historiska museum

Source - http: www.historiska.se, collections.smvk.se
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

Event - Was Present At

The Swedish archaeological expedition to Iran (1932-1933)

Source - http: collections.smvk.se

Cf Publications

Cf/Excavated: Pulak 1988 fig 20 (KW 275) SRF hilt wood & ivory inlays, not WP. Blade most like. L: c 46;

Vanden Berghe 1973a fig 15: 5 BB tomb 54 Late Iron 1. H shape BB tomb 67. fig 23:10, PK identical Late Iron 1-Early Iron 2, also pl. xxviii: 3;

— 1973c 65 p. 24:41, GL, Iron 1&2;

Meldgaard et alii1963, fig 31 Tepe Guran grave 4, Late Bronze Age 1300-1100;

Moorey 1975, fig 3:5. Achaemenid-blade shape;

Edelstein 1973 p. 61, 2nd from L. Tomb of Mercenary, Saint Jean d'Acre, Israel, blade shape, 1412-1375 BC. Found with trident etc. More cf in archives binder;

Cf/Collection: De Waele 1982, fig 31 no 33 p 42;

Heine-Geldern: 1937 Fig 2 C Nihavand Persia one date ky inscription king Marduk-nadin-aha Babylon 1116-1101 BC (British Museum) see Hissar III C, Terang tepe Transcaucasia, N. Caucasus, S Russia 1200-1000 BC;

Maxwell-Hyslop 1964 pl. XII : 5,6 (iron) Deve Huyuk 5 : L 36.2 116 Lc 32 Ashmolean Museum Blade! Hilt incurved above ricasso sort of MM Lur 2;

Moorey 1974a BM 123060 pl. II A bronze inscribed for an sliced "splayed" blade.

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