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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9487528, member: 8267&quot;]From the colors/corrosion, it looks like the dagger is made of bronze. By Roman times, when the cult of Mithras was popular, the use of iron/steel would be more likely.</p><p><br /></p><p>The design along the blade does not appear to be grapevine. (If it were intended to have grape/wine symbolism, some grapes would have been included.). It looks more like an acanthus leaf scroll, a common classical motif first used by the ancient Greeks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The style of the pommel resembles a form referred to as &quot;double ear&quot;, as seen on Luristan (Lorestan) bronze weapons from northwestern Iran, dating from 1100 - 650 BC.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445102[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/superb-luristan-bronze-double-ear-pommel-sword-37-c-e1343a1aa4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/superb-luristan-bronze-double-ear-pommel-sword-37-c-e1343a1aa4" rel="nofollow">https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/superb-luristan-bronze-double-ear-pommel-sword-37-c-e1343a1aa4</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/01/the-mystery-of-the-luristan-bronzes-still-puzzles-archaeologists" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/01/the-mystery-of-the-luristan-bronzes-still-puzzles-archaeologists" rel="nofollow">https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2022/01/the-mystery-of-the-luristan-bronzes-still-puzzles-archaeologists</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If your dagger is authentic, it seems it would have originated during the late bronze - early iron ages, in some region with both Greek and Iranian/Persian influence.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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