Knife

MS928D

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS928D
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 109F
Section Mediterranean
Materials Iron
Description

a: Largest fragment - includes a piece of the tang of the hilt, circular in section, the remains of a guard, consisting of an ornamental disk of iron with openwork step pattern, and a piece of blade, on which are traces of a wooden sheath. b: With this fragment may be associated the iron disk with an openwork step pattern which matches one mentioned above, on assumption that it served as the upper covering of the pommel now gone. c and d: two smaller fragments from blade.

Length 23 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Giuseppe Ficola, 1896

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