dirk
- Museum number
- 128767
- Description
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Miniature copper alloy dirk; rivet holes in the recessed hilt indicate that it was originally inlaid.
- Dimensions
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Length: 13.30 centimetres
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Weight: 25.50 grammes
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- This may have been a dedicatory object although this type is also found in graves.
Comparanda: type discussed by Muscarella (1988), "Bronze and Iron", pp. 284-85, no.389.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1995-2005 17 Nov-14 Dec BM, G52/IRAN/16/5, from official opening
Iranian Room [IR] c/B.
- Condition
- Blade broken.
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition of this collection was highlighted in the 'Annual Report of the General Progress of the Museums for the year 1936' (BM BM (Natural History) 1937, pp. 10-11) as "A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., and for the most part from known sites; specially selected to illustrate periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the collection".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 128767
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.157