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ANCIENT BRONZE SWORD ON STAND - SUPERB PATINA
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Beschreibung
ca. 1200 - 800 BC; Greek Archaic period.This beautiful bronze sword has a tapering, bevelled blade with a raised midrib adorned with two shallow fullers or “blood groves” and short tang. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Superb condition, on a custom-made stand.Size: L:450mm / W:65mm ; 350g; Provenance: Property of a professional London art expert; obtained from an old British collection formed in the 1980s.
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ca. 1200 - 800 BC; Greek Archaic period.This beautiful bronze sword has a tapering, bevelled blade with a raised midrib adorned with two shallow fullers or “blood groves” and short tang. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Superb condition, on a custom-made stand.Size: L:450mm / W:65mm ; 350g; Provenance: Property of a professional London art expert; obtained from an old British collection formed in the 1980s.
ANCIENT JEWELLERY, WEAPONRY AND CLASSICAL ART
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Bloomsbury
London
WC1A 2JH
United Kingdom
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