12th-10th century BCE
23 x 6 x 2.5 cm (9 1/16 x 2 3/8 x 1 in.)
Arthur Upham Pope Collection. Private Collection, Boston, (by 1931), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1931.
Malachite- and azurite-encrusted bronze blade; greenish, brown jadelike guard
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