Inventory Number: | B 937 | |
Section Number: | Η 696 | |
Title: | Dagger Fragment | |
Category: | Bronze | |
Description: | Mended from eight pieces, badly corroded. Tip, one cutting edge, one-third of hilt, and pommel missing. Leaf-shaped, short slender proportions to judge by the width preserved from edge to edge below hilt. Very thin and flat, no trace of median rib. Hilt had traces of wood now disappeared. Two of the three bronze rivets which attached thisare preserved; they are double headed an doriginally circular. The cutting edges are still very sharp; the tip is broken straight across. | |
Context: | Mycenaean Chamber Tomb at north side of Temple of Ares. | |
Notebook Page: | 1459, 1475 | |
Negatives: | Leica, XLVI-89, LV-88, LVII-53 | |
PD Number: | 336 | |
Dimensions: | P.L. 0.16; P.W. 0.036, (hilt) 0.02; W. (below hilt) 0.031 | |
Material: | Copper alloy | |
Date: | 11 May 1951 | |
Section: | Η | |
Deposit: | J 7:2 | |
Bibliography: | Langenbucher (2007), p. 84, fig. 87. | |
Hesperia 24 (1955), p. 215, pl. 76, fig. 8, no. 27. | ||
Agora XIII, p. 189, pl. 40, no. VII-28. | ||
References: | Publication: Agora XIII Publication: Hesperia 24 (1955) Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 210, p. 189 Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 293, p. 272 Publication Page: Agora 13, s. 348 Drawing: DA 10681 Image: 2008.03.0113 Image: 2012.53.0686 (LV-88) Image: 2012.53.0848 (LVII-53) Deposit: J 7:2 Notebook: Η-8 Notebook Page: Η-8-96 (pp. 1526-1527) Card: B 937 Card: B 937 |