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Bronze Cypriot sword

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An image of Weapons. Sword. Production Place: Cyprus. Bronze, length 0.289 m, width 0.029 m, 1400-1201 B.C. Late Cypriot II, Bronze Age.

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Weapons. Sword. Production Place: Cyprus. Bronze, length 0.289 m, width 0.029 m, 1400-1201 B.C. Late Cypriot II, Bronze Age.

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  • Accession Number: GR.87.1901
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Amy Jugg
  • Image height: 277 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 40.19kB
  • Exposure time: 1/180
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

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Ancient Greece antiquity BC bronze Bronze Age Cypriot edged weapon Fitz_ANT Late Cypriot Period patina patinated patination sword weapon

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