Object: Dagger
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,Lord Howard de Walden,Belgrave Square, SW
Site: Egypt
Country: Egypt
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): Blade only 228; length overall 319
Width (mm): blade 44, 39.5
Thickness (mm): blade 2.5, 8.5
Weight (g): 156.4
Patina: Thin mottled light green with traces of copper showing beneath.
Surface: Very coppery. Some earth adheres.
Description: Hilt. The head is same both sides. The other figures beneath are slightly different. Made of carved wood with rounded edges + rivetted to socket blade. Along centre of blade is a rib-square in section + fluted. Blade practically same thickness all along.