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Large Dagger
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Purchased by David Gordon Mitten at the bazaar in Izmir Turkey during the summer of 1960.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of David Gordon Mitten in memory of W. C. Burriss Young
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