Or Elbe dagger

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Dagger or Elbe type

The Oder-Elbe dagger is a type of dagger from the early Bronze Age .

description

It is the leading form of level Bz A1. The blade is flat, thin and triangular in shape. The cutting edges are straight. The magazine is straight. It is made of bronze and is cast hollow. The pommel is mostly flat and only protrudes a little. The shape of the handle is unique with this type of dagger and thus represents a unique selling point. The handle shoulders are rather flat or slightly curved and wide. The handle section is small and semicircular to semi-oval. The ends of the staples are not drawn in. The number of rivets for fastening it to the blade is five or seven. The rivets are symmetrically arranged in two groups of the same number on both handle wings to the left and right of the handle section and are at the same height. The fifth or seventh rivet is attached above the handle cutout.
The type is named after the original area with the greatest density of finds, which extends along and between the rivers Oder and Elbe . This area is now summarized as the northern group. A southern group is defined based on more recent finds from Gaimersheim near Ingolstadt . This also includes the daggers of the Oder-Elbe type from Rastatt and Gau-Bickelheim . Formally, however, there are no differences between the daggers of the individual groups, the division is only based on the distribution area. The daggers are decorated with grooves running parallel to the cutting edges, which begin below the tack ends and converge at the point. Another decoration is a hanging triangular motif made of line bands, which is usually below the handle cutout and protrudes with the tip into the surface of the blade.

Other variants can be found under the term shank of prehistoric knives, daggers and swords .

Locations

literature

  • Stefan Schwenzer: Early Bronze Age full-grip daggers. Publishing house of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum in commission with Dr. Rudolf Habelt, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-88467-081-6 , pp. 42-48.
  • Otto Uenze: The early Bronze Age triangular full-grip daggers. Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1938, pp. 41-53.
  • Waldtraut Bohm : The older Bronze Age of the Mark Brandenburg . Berlin / Leipzig 1935.
  • Rolf Breddin : The Aunjetitz bronze find from Bresinchen, district of Guben . In: Publications of the Museum for Pre- and Early History Potsdam 5 . Potsdam 1969. p. 15ff.