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1884.121.23

Dagger with tapering, two edged blade and tang with a forked butt (one limb is missing) [SM 09/01/2008]

1884.121.23

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Collection type
Object
Description
Dagger with tapering, two edged blade and tang with a forked butt (one limb is missing) [SM 09/01/2008]
Long description
Dagger with tapering, two edged blade and tang with a forked butt (one limb is missing). The blade has grooves on both surfaces. A copper alloy rivet is attached to the base of the tang on one surface. [SM 09/01/2008]
Geographical reference
Spain
Europe > Southern Europe > Spain
Andalucía Córdoba Almedinilla
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Iron Age, uncertain
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884
Materials and processes
Material Iron Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Process Forged (Metal), Process Grooved, Process Riveted
Dimensions
Width: max 52 mm, Length: max 343 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.121.23
Research and responses

See El armamento ibérico: Estudio tipológico, geográfico, funcional, social y simbólico de las armas en la Cultura Ibérica (siglos VI-I a.C.) (Monographies Instrumentum, 3), by Fernando Quesada Sanz, Montagnac: Monique Mergoil (1997). [MdeA 19/2/1999; JC 21 7 2011]

For an illustrated account of the collection history of the four items from this site in the founding collection [1884.24.124, 1884.120.35, 1884.121.22, 1884.121.23], see 'Armes Ibériques entre Almedinilla et Oxford, en passant par Paris: les dessins de Jean-Charles Geslin en 1870', by Fernando Quesada and Pierre Rouillard, Gladius, Vol. 22 (2000), pp. 119-129. All four pieces are illustrated in black and white in Figure 6 on page 128. (Copy in RDF for 1884.24.124.) [MdeA 20/2/2001; JC 21 7 2011]

An entry in the manuscript catalogue of Pitt-Rivers's second collection held by Cambridge University Library suggests that the four items from this site in the founding collection [1884.24.124, 1884.120.35, 1884.121.22, 1884.121.23] were obtained from Rollin and Feuardent. The entry for two iron spear-heads Pitt-Rivers acquired from Rollin & Feaurdent on 19 March 1891 is annotated 'Bought of Rollin & Feuardent (Mr Whelan) Bloomsbury Street W ... [1 of] Two iron spear-heads from Spain. They were found with the well known hoard of iron swords of early form and of which you possess an example acquired from us many years since' (see CUL MS Add.9455, Vol. 2, p. 672). [AP 18/1/2010; JC 21 7 2011]

Search terms: Weapon, Religion, Tool, Death, Dagger, Knife, Grave Good

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