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STUNNING ANCEINT BRONZE SWORD WITH IBEX HANDLE
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ca. 1200-800 BC, Greek Archaic Period.This beautiful cast bronze sword has a tapering, bevelled blade adornned with two fuller or "blood grooves" and a raised cresentric design decorationg the blade's base as well as a recessed ibex integral handle 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. Size: L:400mm / W:60mm ; 410g; Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s on the UK / European art markets.
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ca. 1200-800 BC, Greek Archaic Period.This beautiful cast bronze sword has a tapering, bevelled blade adornned with two fuller or "blood grooves" and a raised cresentric design decorationg the blade's base as well as a recessed ibex integral handle 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. Size: L:400mm / W:60mm ; 410g; Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s on the UK / European art markets.
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