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SHM 20563 MMLur 017 :: dagger

Object description: Cast in one piece. Flat broad hilt, rectangular in section, widens somewhat into pommel. Rounded, "heart-shaped" shoulder tapers into very narrow blade. Flat blade, no midrib, point broken. Incised? line across junction between hilt and blade on both faces.

Data elements
References (1)

Inventory number

SHM 20563 MMLur 017

Serie nummer

320

MM Lur

Object

dagger

Country - Findspot

Iran : Asia

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Iran

Place - Findspot

Luristan

Region - Findspot

Lorestan

Material

Copper

Acquisition

Bought by Prof. Ture Arne in Iran in 1932

Description

Cast in one piece. Flat broad hilt, rectangular in section, widens somewhat into pommel. Rounded, "heart-shaped" shoulder tapers into very narrow blade. Flat blade, no midrib, point broken. Incised? line across junction between hilt and blade on both faces.

Time - Manufacturing, earliest

1300 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