Google Earth| Inventory Number: B 2033 |
| Section Number: ΒΕ 1818 |
| Conservation Number: 2940 |
| Title: Mycenaean Bronze Dagger with Gold Leaf |
| Category: Bronze |
| Description: Broken in three fragments: at handle attachment and midway along hilt. Upper part of blade cracked. Three rivets preserved along hilt, two on widest area of blade. Seven complete studs (+one fragmentary) of which five have gold leaf wrapped around their rim are also preserved. On hilt two small fragments of gold leaf still attached. Blade tapers gradually from shoulder to rounded point. Straight hilt ends in a wide flat pommel with rounded, downward-turning ends. Entire hilt edged by a flange which continues around shoulder of blade. Bronze. |
| Keyword: Faklaris |
| Context: Mycenaean Chamber Tomb, north. |
| Handling: placed in a carved ethafoam plank mount with silica gel desiccation. |
| Notebook Page: 8825 |
| Storage: Study Collections-Case No. 88-6 |
| Negatives: Leica |
| PD Numbers: PD 2784-11 |
| Dimensions: P.L. 0.412; Th. (blade) 0.055; W. (blade) 0.067, (hilt) 0.03, (pommel) 0.055; |
| Material: Copper alloy |
| Date Of Discovery: 7 July 1998 |
| Section: ΒΕ |
| Grid: J/19-2/13 |
| Elevation: 50.949-50.668m. |
| Longitude: 23.722660 |
| Latitude: 37.976523 |
| Deposit: J-K 2:2 |
| Basket: 71 |
| Bibliography: Hesperia 72 (2003), p. 262, no. 27, fig. 27. |
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