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Ancient Indian Copper Antennae Sword Dagger
Ancient Indian Copper Antennae Sword Dagger
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Description
Copper Hoard Culture antennae sword, 2,800-1,500 BCE, Gangetic Valley, India. These antennae swords or are daggers cast and hammered from unalloyed copper decorated with an "antennae" style pommel and a prominent ridge. Their function was mainly ceremonial or dedicatory and they were ritually "killed" by folding the blade twice before being placed in the grave.
Keywords: Blade, Artifact, Ancient, Antiquities, Bronze, Uttar Pradesh

"Indian Journal of Archaeology," Vol. 1, No. 1, 2016, fig. 33, pg. 16 and fig.1, pg. 29.

Height ranges from 3/8 in to 1 in; width ranges from 1 3/4 in to 2 in; depth ranges from 4 7/8 in to 9 in.
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Ancient Indian Copper Antennae Sword Dagger

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Starting Price $200
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 Robert Snell
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