10th-9th century BC. A bronze sword with long tapering blade, rectangular-section hilt with raised circular bosses, horned crescent-shaped guard curved to accept the blade and a large bifurcated pommel formed as two ear-lobes with ribbed joining shank. Cf. Khorasani, M. M. Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, T??bingen, 2006, Cat.45 for type. 1.18 kg, 66cm (26"). Property of a Guernsey collector; acquired in the UK in the early 1990s.