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dagger(?); knife(?)

Object Type: dagger (?); knife (?)
Museum number: 1899,1229.66
Description: Bronze dagger-blade or knife; cast and hammered; small flat rivetless tang, horizontal at top; rounded shoulder with two rivets; blade narrowing towards the sharp end; low but angular mid-rib; centre part of blade has been cleaned, but above and below the metal is very corroded.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1950BC-1650BC
Production place: Made in: Cyprus
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: The British Museum; Excavated by: Francis Bertram Welch; Excavated by: Percy Christian
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Klavdia, Uncertain tomb
Materials
Type series
Technique: cast; hammered; riveted
Dimensions: Length: 10.80 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Malmgren 2003 / Klavdhia-Tremithos. A Middle and Late Cypriote Bronze Age site. (no. 111, p.53); Balthazar 1990 / Copper and Bronze Working in Early through Middle Bronze Age Cyprus (p.332, table 81); Kiely 2011d / Klavdia-Tremithos: A Bronze Age community in south-east Cyprus (U.7)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition date: 1899
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1899,1229.66