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Bimetallic Sword
| Collection number | 銅079-0435 |
|---|---|
| Provenance | Northern Iran |
| Period | Iron Age |
| Date | 10th-8th Century BCE |
| Material | Copper Alloy, Iron |
| Dimension | L. 86.0 cm |
| Comment | This is seemingly a very ordinary piece of a bronze sword, but amazingly, an iron core is embedded into its grip. Iron cores are applied only to swords that are typologically typical for northwestern Iran in the tenth to the ninth centuries BC. The reason why people embedded iron cores into the swords remains an enigma. |
| Classification | bronze sword |
| Keywords | Green Cool, Strong Western Asia, Iran, Northern Iran, Northwestern Iran Iron Age, Iranian Iron Age, Iranian Iron Age 2 Metal, Copper, Copper alloy, Iron Arms, Sword |
| 資料ID | 2170 |