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Copper (alloy?) dagger. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)
Copper (Alloy?) Dagger
The Lydians and their World
(2010)
Cat. 4
- Date
- Ca. 2500-2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 4340
- Museum Inventory No.
- 4340
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- M69.005
- Material
- Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Weapon or Armor
- Site
- Ahlatlı Tepecik
- Sector
- BT
- Trench
- EB 69.1
- Locus
- EB 69.1 Locus Burial EB 69.3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- Bin Tepe Grid: E 4.1-E 4.1/N 3.2-N 3.1; * -
- Description
- Copper or copper alloy. Lozenge-shaped blade with rounded, perforated butt end and sharply tapered point. Widest part of blade nearest butt. Flattened lozenge-shaped section.
- Dimensions
- Length 0.103 m, width 0.0185 m, Th. 0.002 m.
- Comments
- From an Early Bronze Age grave at Ahlatlı Tepecik on the shore of the Gygaean Lake (Grave 69.3), with Nos. 1-6.
- See Also
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann et al. 1970, 16, fig. 4; Waldbaum 1983a, no. 1.
- Author
- NDC