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    Copper (alloy?) dagger. (Courtesy of the Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul)

    Copper (Alloy?) Dagger

    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