second half 7th-6th century BCE
4.8 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm (1 7/8 x 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964. Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Oxide-encrusted bronze blade; bone-colored nephrite guard
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