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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. 9
- Date
- Ca. 2500–2000 BC, Early Bronze Age
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 7529
- Museum Inventory No.
- 7529
- Material
- Copper, Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Metalwork
- Metalwork Type
- Weapon or Armor
- Site
- Turgutlu?
- Description
- Copper or copper alloy. Long, lozenge-shaped blade with rounded butt end with no rivet hole and tapered point. Widest part of blade nearest haft.
- Comments
- Said to come from Turgutlu and purchased by the Manisa Museum in 1989.
- See Also
- Roosevelt, “Lydia Before the Lydians”.
- Bibliography
- Author
- CHR