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Which scenes appear on the bronze dagger blade from the Lasithi plain in Crete?
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Warrior and attendants plaque, brass relief sculpture by Edo artists in the court of the kingdom of Benin (now Nigeria), 16th–17th century; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
The bronze dagger blade found in the Lasithi plain of Crete, which dates to approximately 1800 BCE, features two distinct engraved scenes:
- A fight between two bulls
- A man spearing a boar1
This artifact is recognized as the earliest known predecessor to the more elaborately ornamented dagger blades later discovered in Mycenae.1