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13.10.1 The general category of rat-tanged weapons is continuous from early bronze age through late bronze age.
13.10.2 As Catling notes (125) 'the Late Cypriot dagger is an uninspiring and uninteresting weapon. The series is merely a continuation of the daggers of the Early and Middle Cypriot periods' thus it is hard to distinguish between early, middle, and late Cypriote examples. There is even less to be said about a fragment that preserves no distinct or shoulders. It is in terms of its convex butt that the Ure example is comparable to Catling's type (a) dagger, such as that from Nicosia noted below, which was found in a LC1A context
2006.12.65 With a group of sherds said to be found in the Roman level of the Temple of Artemis Orthia
2008.7.101 On the basis of style (see attribution)
2018.6.1 The writing on one side, which refers to a measure of wine, uses a specific unit that helped us to determine that it was written in the 4th century AD.
35.5.20-22 Late work in the Penthesilean tradition
45.6.34 Dated by Michael Turner on the basis of comparison with Anne Kustermann Graf, Selinunte. Necropoli di Manicalunga. Le tombe della Contrada Gaggera {2002} 181 inv. nos. 113/0 952 and 953, pl. 57 (tomb 113).
51.7.7 Ted Robinson (personal correspondence 30.04.04): I would date it a ... bit later than the vase in Andria ..., and probably later than the ones in Monopoli and Warsaw, but contemporary with the rest, which I would place 350-325 BC."
REDMG:1951.113.3 J.R. Green suggests this date on the basis of pictures (14.11.2003).
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