Dagger Hilt
69-21-171
From: Iran | Amlash
Curatorial Section: Near Eastern
| Object Number | 69-21-171 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Iran | Amlash |
| Date Made | 1000-600 BCE |
| Section | Near Eastern |
| Materials | Bronze | Iron |
| Description | Hilt bronze, fragment of iron blade. Hilt: handle lozenge shaped in section, decorated with six bands of very shallow groups of oblique chevron lines. Pommel formed of double discs, the larger at top of hilt, smaller at top of pmmel. This one has hole in center. Shoulder of hilt on blade eared, with straight flanges down edge of blade. Across top of blade decorated with shallow oblique lines in three bands. |
| Credit Line | The Hasanlu Project (Miscellaneous Sites); Robert H. Dyson Jr., 1969 |
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