12th-11th century BC. A bronze short sword with lentoid-section leaf-shaped blade, rectangular guard with recess to each face, tubular grip and bell-shaped ribbed pommel. Cf. Khorasani, M.M. Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, T??bingen, 2006 fig.27(b"). 570 grams, 53cm (21"). Property of a North London gentleman; previously in a private collection formed in the 1990s.