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Dagger with pommel and scabbard
Dagger with pommel and scabbard

Dagger with pommel and scabbard

about 1700–1550 B.C.
FindspotKerma, Nubia (Sudan)
Medium/TechniqueBronze or copper, ivory and rawhide or leather
DimensionsLength: .240
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number20.1560
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsWarfare, hunting, fishing
ProvenanceFrom Kerma, K3501x. March 1914: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of Sudan.
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