WALL CASE J. Replica sword

Accession Number AN1896-1908.AE.1146
Year 1890s
Dimensions l. 42.5 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 the Mycenae Shaft Graves.

Bibliography

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