RARE ANCIENT BRONZE SWORD WITH HANDLE
1200-800 BC, Greek Archaic Period. This rare example of a cast bronze sword which has a tapering, bevelled blade with raised midrib, gently flaring shoulders and a recessed integral ibex handle with a crescentic lower guard that would have been inset with stone, bone or ivory inlay. 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:445mm; 446g. Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1980s.
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1200-800 BC, Greek Archaic Period. This rare example of a cast bronze sword which has a tapering, bevelled blade with raised midrib, gently flaring shoulders and a recessed integral ibex handle with a crescentic lower guard that would have been inset with stone, bone or ivory inlay. 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:445mm; 446g. Provenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1980s.
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