10th-8th century BC. A cast bronze dirk with slender leaf-shaped black and hilt; flanged hilt to receive bone inlay with traces of blue pigmentation, pierced to the top and bottom; rectangular guard with lappets securing bone inlay. Cf. Khorasani, M.M. Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, T??bingen, 2006, p.54, fig.4 for a similar example. 305 grams, 39.5cm (15 1/2"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK in the early 1990s.