12th-9th century BC. A bronze dagger with lentoid-section leaf-shaped blade, ear-lobed hilt, double waisted with bifurcated pommel, formed as two crescentic lobes. Cf. Muscarella, O. W. Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, item 387 for type. 245 grams, 33.5 cm (13 1/4"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK in the early 1990s.