Dagger, 12th/9th century BC

  • Luristan, Iranian

Bronze, iron

  • Overall (L x W x D): 15 1/4 × 1 1/4 × 1 3/4 inches (38.7 × 3.2 × 4.4 cm)

Gift Jerome M. Eisenberg

68.73

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Jerome M. Eisenberg [1930-2022] (New York, New York, USA)

1968-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

P.R.S. Moorey, Catalogue of Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pp. 74, 75 similar Short-Swords and Daggers discussed and dated. Type originally of Mesopotamian or Elamite origin and found in the central Zagros, not in north-west Iran or south-west Caspian area, p. 76 fig. 14, pl. 6 figs. 51, 52, ill. William H. Peck, "Luristan Bronzes in the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 47, no. 2, 1968, p, 32, ill. p. 33.

Luristan, Iranian, Dagger, 12th/9th century BC, bronze, iron. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift Jerome M. Eisenberg, 68.73.