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Dagger Blade with Four Rivets
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Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Purchased in 2003 from Michael G. Petropoulos Galerie Rhéa Zürich Switzerland. Previously Auktionshaus Stucker AG Berne Switzerland 11 Dec. 1993 lot. 8453.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Shelby White and Leon Levy and Roy W. Lennox
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