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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bob L., post: 3925880, member: 56976&quot;]Yep, grave goods, Steve. From my essay at Forum:</p><p>&quot;Three thousand years ago nomadic horsemen who served as mercenaries in regional conflicts would purchase such metal weaponry as they traveled through towns in the <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=area" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=area" rel="nofollow">area</a>. When they died their <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1603&amp;pos=0#Types%20and%20Materials" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1603&amp;pos=0#Types%20and%20Materials" rel="nofollow">weapons</a> were buried with them. As Moorey states, &#039;…even the poorest male graves appear to have contained a few simple <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1603&amp;pos=0#Types%20and%20Materials" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/catalog/roman-and-greek-coins.asp?vpar=1603&amp;pos=0#Types%20and%20Materials" rel="nofollow">weapons</a>; the richest were amply stocked with them.&#039; Accordingly, many of the ancient Iranian daggers, lance blades, and so forth that one spots in museums and on the market, are from graves.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The attribution is valid, Al. Beautiful dagger. I typically see 1200-800 BC (rather than -900 BC) listed for Luristani artifacts. If you reference plate 89 of Bruno Overleat’s “Luristan Excavation Documents, Vol. IV: The Early Iron Age in the Pusht-I Kuh, Luristan” at academia.edu, you’ll see a specimen (A9-58, from Kutal-I Gulgul tomb A9) with a hilt quite similar to yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the Piscopo collection, see my response to rrdenarius a few posts above...or, to save you the trouble, here&#039;s what I said earlier:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So I&#039;m a bit jealous of you, Al. That&#039;s great provenance for your dagger. I do hope to add an ex-Piscopo at some point down the line.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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