Dagger with Flanged Hilt, 1250 - 750 BCE

  • Luristan, Iranian

Bronze

  • Overall: 16 7/8 × 1 7/8 × 1/2 inches (42.9 × 4.8 × 1.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Elton A. Eckstrand

66.409

On View

  • Ancient Middle East Gallery, Level 1, West

Department

Ancient Near Eastern Art

(Sign of the Blue Onion)

1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Bulletin of the DIA 47, no. 2 (1968): pp. 30-34, p. 33 (ill.). Moorey, P.R.S. Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, pp. 72, 73 [similar weapon discussed and dated], p. 70, (fig. 13), pl. 6, (fig. 49), (ill.). Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA Statewide Services Travelling Exhibition. Detroit, February 5, 1984 - December 16, 1985, cat. no. 8.

Luristan, Iranian, Dagger with Flanged Hilt, 1250 - 750 BCE, bronze. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Elton A. Eckstrand, 66.409.