A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF SIX BRONZE AND IRON IMPLEMENTS, FIRST MILLENIUM BC AND LATER comprising an iron sickle blade, Europe, 16th century or earlier, of crescent shaped form with integral ring socket, a Roman bronze strigil, 1st-2nd century AD, an Indian bronze elephant goad blade (ankus), probably 15th/16th century, a bronze tool, with flared chisel blades at either end, possibly Roman, and two serpentine knife blades, one iron, the other bronze, probably Iberia, 1st millennium BC 45 cm; 17 3/4 in and smaller (6) Provenance The fourth: Comtesse de Broussiere, until circa 1913, said to have been found by her father Julian Greau, in the Rhone Valley towards the end of 19th century, Karl Freund (Anderson Galleries), 16th May 1928 The last: Note on the old file card states: "Purchased from the store room of the Egyptian collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, September 1, 1958, by Richard C. Higgins and present [sic] to JWHA. their gift catalogue number, 219". A later record states that no records have been found at the Metropolitan Museum to verify this statement. JWHA Inv. Nos. 238.25, 238.14, 299, 553, 3154, 285
A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF SIX BRONZE AND IRON IMPLEMENTS, FIRST MILLENIUM BC AND LATER comprising an iron sickle blade, Europe, 16th century or earlier, of crescent shaped form with integral ring socket, a Roman bronze strigil, 1st-2nd century AD, an Indian bronze elephant goad blade (ankus), probably 15th/16th century, a bronze tool, with flared chisel blades at either end, possibly Roman, and two serpentine knife blades, one iron, the other bronze, probably Iberia, 1st millennium BC 45 cm; 17 3/4 in and smaller (6) Provenance The fourth: Comtesse de Broussiere, until circa 1913, said to have been found by her father Julian Greau, in the Rhone Valley towards the end of 19th century, Karl Freund (Anderson Galleries), 16th May 1928 The last: Note on the old file card states: "Purchased from the store room of the Egyptian collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, September 1, 1958, by Richard C. Higgins and present [sic] to JWHA. their gift catalogue number, 219". A later record states that no records have been found at the Metropolitan Museum to verify this statement. JWHA Inv. Nos. 238.25, 238.14, 299, 553, 3154, 285
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