Lot 2392

Western Asiatic Scythian Dirk

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Western Asiatic Scythian Gold Bull Dress Ornament: 6th-4th century BC. A flat round gold plaque with a bull head in a centre, pelleted border and four pierced lugs for stitching. See Reeder, E. (ed) Scythian Gold: Treasures from Ancient Ukraine, New Y

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Western Asiatic Luristan Dirk: 2nd millennium BC. A large bronze dagger or dirk with triangular blade and raised median panel, rectangular lower guard and waisted grip with flanges to the edges. 316 grams, 43.5cm (17") Property of

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Western Asiatic Syro-Hittite Gold Bracelet with: 12th-7th century BC. A two-part annular bracelet comprising a sheet-gold tube over a core; on the longer, female section, the open rim strengthened and decorated with a guilloche in filigree gold wire

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5th century BC. An iron dagger or dirk with leaf-shaped lentoid-section blade, narrow shoulder, broad grip, pierced antenna-type terminal. 145 grams, 35.5cm (14"). From a private Austrian collection; formerly in an old British private collection; formed between 1975 and 1985.