Description (Labels & Markings)
Both fragments marked in white paint: 'BUL'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Display)
Cream plastic label from Fitzwilliam Museum display case has printed text reading: 'Bronze and iron swords, daggers, spear-heads and knives. From tombs at Tamassus [sic] in Cyprus. One bronze rivet with gold head, which fastened the ivory handle to large sword blade, remains. Presented by Sir H. Bulwer, G.C.M.G. 1892.'
[later addition in black ink] 'Z. 15151/2'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for Z 21046[.1-4]: 'Four fragments of iron swords, two joining together.'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
From a tomb. Excavated by Max Ohnefalsch-Richter, Royal Berlin Museum, 1889.
Event Date 1889
Author: maa

Context (Other owners)
Collected by Sir Henry Bulwer, High Commissioner for Cyprus 1886-1892, who purchased finds from Max Ohnefalsch-Richter’s excavations through Eustathios Constantinides and donated them to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1892 and 1907.
Event Date 1892
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Accession register description for 1951.2042: 'Case of bronze and iron weapons.'
Event Date 1951
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description for 1951.2042: 'Case containing: Iron swords with bronze mountings and various small bronze objects. Part of the ivory hilt plate and a bronze rivet with gold head remain on one side of the iron swords.'
Event Date 1951
Author: maa

Context (Acquisition Details)
Transferred from the Fitzwilliam Museum to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, possibly in 1938, then transferred from the Museum of Classical Archaeology to MAA in November 1951.
Event Date 11/1951
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Buchholz, Hans-Günter et al. (2010). Tamassos. Ein antiker Stadstaat im Bergbaugebiet von Zypern. Band I. Die Nekropolen I, II und III. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag.
Event Date 2010
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
During the Stores Move Project (2020-2025) it was discovered that at an unknown date, the case of bronze and iron objects from Tamassos (including swords, daggers, spear heads, knives and other small objects) had become disassociated from its accession number 1951.2042; these objects were subsequently re-accessioned with the numbers Z 15151 - Z 15152 and Z 21046 - Z 21057. The objects have now been returned to their original accession number, with each object type being given its own letter suffix, and, where appropriate, a numeric suffix.
Event Date 4/3/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Two fragments of an iron sword. Blade has a pronounced midrib, and edges that gradually taper to a broad point.
Event Date 4/3/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad