Knife

49-12-1056

Location: On Display in the Greece Gallery

From: Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki

Curatorial Section: Mediterranean

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Object Number 49-12-1056
Current Location Greece Gallery - On Display
Culture Cypriot
Provenience Cyprus | Kourion | Kaloriziki
Site Name Kourion
Locus Tomb 39:31
Period Cypro-Geometric Period
Date Made 1050-750 BCE
Section Mediterranean
Materials Iron | Wood (uncertain) | Bone (uncertain)
Description

Shaft broken off. Curved blade with traces of wood or bone handle attached by 2 bronze rivets projecting on both sides of the shaft end. On catalogue card is reported "a sheath of cloth(?) wraped round and round in a strip ca. 2.5 cm wide". This was missing at the time of control.

Length 13.5 cm
Width 2 cm
Thickness 1.3 cm
Credit Line Cyprus Expedition, J. F. Daniel, 1949
Other Number M8 - Field No SF

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