Copper alloy dagger
- Accession Number
- W127
- Current Location
- House of Life (first floor), Metalwork case
- Object Types
- Fakes and replicas, Fakes | Implements and utensils, Warfare, hunting and fishing equipment, Dagger
- Periods
- New Kingdom to Modern
- Eighteenth Dynasty
- Thutmose III
- Material
- Metals/alloys (Copper alloy)
- Measurements
- Length: 200mm | Width: 29mm | Depth: 7mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
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- Description
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A copper alloy dagger with the cartouche of Thutmose III (Mn-ḫpr-Rꜥ) at the base of the blade. The object underwent XRF analysis in 2019 and was determined to have been a fake. It was possibly purchased by Wellcome in 1907 from the collection of Robert de Rustafjaell.
- Bibliography
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Pietri, Renaud 2012. À propos d'une lame de poignard inscrite au nom d'un roi Menkheperrê: notes sur un objet singulier conservé au Louvre (AF 13446). Cahiers de l'École du Louvre 1, 1–10.
- Other Identity
- 1176 (Boscawen number)
- Previous Owners
- Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 05 Oct 2022
