Accession No
1951.716
Description
Dagger - Bronze dagger with inlaid hilt and crescentic ?limestone pommell. The blade is ogival and has three parallel grooves on each side of the midrib. The hilt is riveted to the blade forming crescentic shoulder and its upper part forms a concave crescent linking with the pommel which is fixed in a convex position
Place
Africa; North Africa; Egypt
Period
Middle Kingdom Second Intermediate
Source
Glanville.Professor.S
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1951.716
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Bronze; Stone; Â ?Limestone
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (CMS Context)
See card for sketch of object. Pruchased from Mrs. Kennington, Cornwall, in 21 December 1950 through Professor S. Glanville. Ref. Plate: 4-11, 13,2; cf: XII; Number 188. Also said to have been published in Antiquity (? C1980's?)
Event Date 15/5/1992
Author: maa
Description (CMS Description)
Bronze dagger with inlaid hilt and crescentic ?limestone pommell. The blade is ogival and has three parallel grooves on each side of the midrib. The hilt is riveted to the blade forming crescentic shoulder and its upper part forms a concave crescent linking with the pommel which is fixed in a convex position
Event Date 15/5/1992
Author: maa
Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Brunton, G. 1937. Mostagedda and the Tasian Culture. London. pl. LXXIV (6) and LXXVII (2).
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Wolf, W. 1926. Die Bewaffnung des altagyptischen Heeres. Leipzig. pp. 40-41, Pls. 4 (9-11) and 13 (2).
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Bourriau, Janine and Stephen Quirke. 1988. Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom. Cambridge, pp. 162-163 (188).
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (CMS Context)
Exhibited at the Fitzwilliam Museum's Exhibition of Middle Kingdom Art, Spring 1988.
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (CMS Context)
(Bib): Petrie, W.M.F. 1917. Tools and Weapons. London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt. pp. 28-29, Pl. XXXIII (6-7) and XXXIV (42-47).
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (CMS Context)
See similar dagger published in 'Gizeh and Rifeh' by W.M.F. Petrie, Pl. XII.
Event Date 26/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
FM:39148
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