1939.140: Sword Blade
Weapons and Ammunition
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1939.140
- Title
- Sword Blade
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Work Type
- sword
- Date
- 300-700 CE
- Places
- Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Syria, Daphne (Syria)
- Period
- Roman Imperial period, Late, to Early Byzantine
- Culture
- Roman
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/216711
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Iron
- Dimensions
- 88.3 x 5 cm (34 3/4 x 1 15/16 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Excavated from Daphne, sector 27-O (no. b364-U669) (Turkey, Hatay) by the Syrian Department of Antiquities (later the Hatay government) and the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and Its Vicinity, (1935-1939), dispersed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1939.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch and its Vicinity
- Accession Year
- 1939
- Object Number
- 1939.140
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Verification Level
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