1st millennium BC. A two-edged bronze sword blade, leaf-shape with short rectangular tang, corrugated midrib extending almost to the tip and flared at the shoulder. See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat 31, for type. 385 grams, 38cm (15"). Property of a North London gentleman; formerly in a UK collection.