Object: Sword
Period: Bronze Age
Collection: Private Collection,1923,Lord Howard de Walden,Belgrave Square, SW
Site: Greece,Aegean,Rhodes,(said to have come from)
Country: Greece
Year of discovery: NA
Length (mm): 382
Width (mm): blade 31.5, 35.5; hilt 43.5, 40
Thickness (mm): blade 7; rivets 18.5
Weight (g): 240.97
Patina: Polished dark green (some blue) earth near hilt.
Surface: Slightly rough & a little encrusted.
Description: Good preservation. The hilt appears to be of ivory & on one side what looks like pale greenish enamel, not at all damaged. End of hilt is capped with a dome of bronze with a ball top. Hilt is fastened with 4 dome headed rivets (A, B, C, & D) with a raised ring of ivory round each, on both sides. E & F are raised rings of ivory with drilled centres, E slightly corroded