Agora Object: B 252
Inventory Number:   B 252
Section Number:   Β 1591
Title:   Sword
Category:   Bronze
Description:   Four joined fragments preserving part of the hilt and the stub of the blade.
The edges of the hilt and of the shoulders of the blade are turned over to grip the material (probably wood) of the handle plates.
Cf. P 5887 (fragment of Mycenaean goblet).
Context:   Bouleuterion Plateia, scraping bedrock in south part; context too disturbed and uncertain to be trusted.
Negatives:   Leica
Dimensions:   P.L. 0.176; W. (hilt) ca. 0.031
Material:   Copper alloy
Date:   11 May 1935
Section:   Β
Period:   Mycenaean
Bibliography:   Hesperia 6 (1937), p. 167.
    Agora XIII, p. 182, pl. 38, no. 409.
Is Similar To:   Agora:Object:P 5887
References:   Publication: Agora XIII
Publication: Hesperia 6 (1937)
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 203, p. 182
Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 293, p. 272
Notebook: Β-10
Notebook: Β-15
Notebook Page: Β-10-59 (pp. 1883-1884)
Notebook Page: Β-10-83 (pp. 1931-1932)
Notebook Page: Β-15-26 (pp. 2801-2802)
Card: B 252