Knife

MS2777

From: Italy | Etruria | Narce

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

Object Number MS2777
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Faliscan | Etruscan
Provenience Italy | Etruria | Narce
Locus Tomb 1
Section Mediterranean
Materials Bronze
Description

A: Bronze; edges corroded; mended; three rivet holes near narrower end with remains of iron rivets for attaching handle; on one end of blade remnant of rectangular extension. B: Consists of ring with rectangular piece of thin bronze attached, continues the rectangular extension of knife-pieces of same thickness; corrosion of each similar; do not join tightly, but break is an old one. A ring for suspension at end of a blade is unusual, but something unusual is implied by extension on the knife.

Length 9.84 cm
Width 6.99 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Francesco Mancinelli-Scotti; Subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1898

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