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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