Knife

Object Number:

49-12-1056

Current Location:

Greece Gallery

Culture:

Cypriot

Provenience:

Cyprus
Kourion
Kaloriziki

Locus:

Tomb 39:31

Period:

Cypro-Geometric IA

Section:

Mediterranean

Materials:

Iron
Wood (uncertain)
Bone (uncertain)

Description:

Shaft broken off. Curved blade with traces of wood or bone handle attached by 2 bronze rivets projecting on both sides of the shaft end. On catalogue card is reported "a sheath of cloth(?) wraped round and round in a strip ca. 2.5 cm wide". This was missing at the time of control.

Credit Line:

Cyprus Museum Expedition, J. F. Daniel

Other Number:

M8	-	Field No SF
K1101	-	Other Number

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Ancient Greek World (08 May 1994)

Bibliography:

[Book] Benson, J. L., et al. 1973. The Necropolis of Kaloriziki; excavated by J.F. Daniel and G.H. McFadden for the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 138. : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 124, pl. 40

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