Copper alloy dagger

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Copper alloy dagger (AN1896-1908.AE.235)

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Details

Title

Copper alloy dagger
Associated place

Amorgos (cist grave) (said to be find spot)

Athens (place of purchase)
Date

Early Cycladic III Period (c. 2300 - c. 2100 BC)
Material and technique

copper alloy
Object type

dagger
Dimensions

16.5 cm (length)
43.8 g (weight)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Purchased, 1893.
Museum location

Ground floor | Gallery 20 | Aegean World
Museum department

Antiquities
Accession no.

AN1896-1908.AE.235

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Further reading

Sherratt, Susan, Catalogue of Cycladic Antiquities in the Ashmolean Museum: The Captive Spirit, i (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000), III.3.13

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