Corinth Object: MF 14169
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   MF 14169
Title:   CLASSICAL IRON DAGGER
Category Code:   MF
Object Number:   14169
Description:   Iron dagger or sword, consisting of a long blade, its two faces very slightly convex, with sharp edges. Flat projecting hilt, and handle separately fitted onto rectangular tang. Original publication mentions a bone washer, now lost.
Material:   Iron
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part or all of tang, part of blade; surface spalded.
Dimensions Actual:   W00.047-00.032 (blade)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.150 L00.039(tang)
Period:   Classical
Chronology:   Context late 5th-4th c. B.C.
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V
Bibliography:   Corinth XIV P147 M2 Pl.61
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
Image: digital 2014 0956
Basket: Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V