| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | ZM 11 | |
| Title: | EARLY HELLADIC BRONZE DAGGER BLADE | |
| Category: | Miscellaneous | |
| Category Code: | ZM | |
| Object Number: | 11 | |
| Description: | "The dagger is of the short, broad-hilted type, tapering in a double curve to the point. At the widest part of the hilt it measures 0.052 m across. Four symmetrically placed rivets, which were found in their original position, had once fastened the handle to the haft. The holes for the rivets seem rather carelessly punched; one of them was cut too near the edge of the blade and has been worn or broken through. The handle, no traces of which were found, was probably made of wood; if the length of the rivets may be taken as a criterion, it was at least 0.013 m. thick. A slightly raised rib runs down the middle of the blade on each side, not markedly ridged, but rather smoothly rounded off. Both edges of the weapon are well-sharpened, and the weapon must have been a dangerous one. There was no decoration." Blegen further compares the dagger to others from Early Cycladic tombs, a Middle Helladic tomb at the Argive Heraem, and examples fro the tholos tombs of the Mesara plain in Crete. (Blegen 1928, p. 182) | |
| Decoration: | none | |
| Material: | Bronze | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | Near the end of the Early Helladic period due to the advancement from Earlier Cycladic blades, but its undisturbed context contemporary with the EH settlement (p. 182). | |
| Findspot Description: | Pavement South of House Y, Zygouries | |
| Bibliography: | Blegen 1928, Zygouries, P. 27, p. 182, Pl. XX.25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2002 014 02a |
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