Agora Object: B 2034
Inventory Number:   B 2034
Section Number:   ΒΕ 1819
Conservation Number:   2985
Title:   Mycenaean Bronze Dagger
Category:   Bronze
Description:   Complete dagger. Well preserved, with slight corrosion. Three bronze rivets preserved along handle with three studs still in place, and three rivets on top area of blade.
Five loose studs. (Also12 more loose studs from Tomb K 2:5 from undetermined dagger.)
Blade tapers slightly to rounded blunt tip. Straight hilt ends in a flat pommel with rounded ends. Hilt and upper blade edged by flange.
Bronze.
Box of 12 studs that could be from B 2034, B 2035 and/or B 2036.
Context:   Mycenaean Chamber Tomb.
Handling:   Gloves should be worn during handling. No pressure should be put on the rivets.
Notebook Page:   8859 ff.
Negatives:   Leica
PD Number:   PD 2784-13
Dimensions:   L. (blade) 0.358, (hilt) 0.100; Th. (blade) 0.055; W. (blade) 0.065, (hilt) 0.025, (pommel) 0.055;
Material:   Copper alloy
Date:   24 July 1998
Section:   ΒΕ
Grid:   K/1,3-2/5,6
Elevation:   52.09-51.151m.
Masl:   51.151-52.09m.
Deposit:   K 2:5
Basket:   95
Bibliography:   Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 268, no. 42, fig. 35.
References:   Publication: Hesperia 72 (2003)
Drawing: PD 2784-13 (DA 5310)
Images (14)
Deposit: K 2:5
Card: B 2034
Card: B 2034