Circa 800–600 BC. Cimmerian. A stunning bronze dagger finely cast in one piece with a tapering double-edged, slightly curved blade with a three-row median ridge. The wide and flat hilt is decorated with four concentric circles, each of which are pierced in the middle. Excellent condition; custom–made stand included. Cimmerians were nomadic Indo-European people, who, according to Herodotus, inhabited the region north of the Caucasus and the Black Sea during the 8th and 7th centuries BC. To find out more about the Cimmerians, see Kristensen, A. K. G. (1988). Who Were the Cimmerians, and Where Did They Come from? Sargon II, the Cimmerians, and Rusa I. The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Size: L:295mm / W:60mm ; 245g. Provenance: Property of a European collector, acquired in 2018, previously owned by a London gentleman R. P. T.