Ancient Bronze Sword

Original Item: This sword was reportedly dug up in north-western Anatolia in the late 19th Century. It is all bronze, but the hilt may have been made separately and attached to the blade. The blade is a common shape and size for Persian swords of about 900 BCE, although roughly similar swords, including variations on the Greek Xiphos sword, have been found dating from around 1300 BCE forward. The blade is 39.5 centimeters long by 4.5 centimeters wide at the hilt. It has a full-length strengthening rib on both sides of the blade. The maximum blade thickness at the hilt is just over 7 millimeters. The blade has two straight edges, except for variations from aging. This can be seen in the photographs. The hilt has two circumferential ribs and the pommel is a concave disk 3 cm in diameter. It was clearly made for a small hand. It is heavily corroded, as can be seen in the photographs. It weighs 402 grams, which is about typical of bronze swords of the period of the period. Thi