sword
- Museum number
- 108723
- Description
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Iron sword; forged; oval section hilt terminating at a T-shaped pommel and a swollen guard; blade has a lenticular section with a very low mid-rib and tapers to a point; badly corroded.
- Production date
- 500BC-350BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 8 centimetres (hilt, between shoulder and pommel)
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Length: 34 centimetres
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Weight: 328 grammes
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Thickness: 0.50 centimetres (max of blade)
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Width: 4 centimetres (max of blade)
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Width: 5 centimetres (shoulder)
- Curator's comments
- A distinctively Achaemenid type of sword known to the Greeks as an 'akinakes'.
- Location
- On display (G52/dc3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007- BM, G52/IRAN, case 3
1995-2005 17 Nov-8 Dec, BM, G52/IRAN, case 9/23
1994 BM, G49/IRAN, case 9
BM, Hittite case 2
- Condition
- Fair; blade badly damaged.
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 108723
- Registration number
- 1913,1108.70