LOT 1360 Western Asiatic Dagger Blade with Crescentic Grip
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Late 2nd-1st millennium B.C. A bronze dagger blade with prominently curved guard, which extends out from the ricasso of the pointed blade and partly frames the hilt, thick midrib extending slightly above the ricasso where it held the hilt. See similar swords in Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.99-100. 308 grams, 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.). Ex Abelita family collection, 1980-2015. The hilt of such swords was made separately, and unfortunately is nearly always missing from the archaeological records. The wooden pommel and hilt presumably would have fit onto the central point. Similar daggers had a northern Iranian background and excavated examples have been recorded from the South Caspian Area from Tomadjan and Ghalekuti.
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