WALL CASE J. Replica sword

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1144
Year 1890s
Dimensions l. 100 cm
Medium metal
Location Ashmolean Museum
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Electrotype replica produced by Gilliéron and son from the 1890s. Their electrotypes of Aegean Bronze Age and other antiquities were manufactured at the Württemberg Electro-Plate Company in Germany. The original sword came from Mycenae Shaft Grave V. The image is taken from the Gilliéron catalogue.

Bibliography

Evans, Arthur. 1935. The Palace of Minos at Knossos, IV, p. 849, fig. 831

Myres, John (ed.). 1936. British Archaeological Discoveries in Greece and Crete 1886-1936, p. 26