20044 | 35-1-510

21430http://www165.123.244.137/subject/21430/20044 | 35-1-510

Object TypeKnives and Swords

MuseumUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum

Season Number12: 1933-1934

MaterialIron

U Number20044

Description (Catalog Card)Iron dagger. Broad flat blade, two-edged. The tang and handle bent over. Crescent-shaped pommel.Woolley's description

Description (Modern)Iron dagger, broad blade, triangular in shape. Handle is crescent shaped and it and the haft are bent back on the blade. Either pseudomorphs of a sheath of some type or decoration on the blade, strip running down center of blade.

Description (Archival)Iron. Large; handle doubled on.

Find Context (Catalog Card)brought in from Dakheileh

Material (Catalog Card)IronMaterial as described by Woolley

Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)35-1-510

Measurement (Catalog Card)total L. 00375 width of blade 0057 l. of blade 026

Measurement (X)291Blade

Measurement (X)370If add the bent tang to end of blade

Measurement (Y)62

Measurement (Z)14

PseudomorphWood?

AnalyticDigital X-radiography images taken by Penn Museum Conservation