No. 2 (Inventory no. 3164/O.A. VII b 36). Badly damaged sword blade (in three pieces). Part of tang and point missing. The blade has a pointed, ovoid section. Two thin parallel plastic ribs on each side of the pointed triangular midrib are out-curving at the top of the blade. Flat tang. L (as preserved) 68.0 cm. W (at tang) 1.2 cm. Max. Th 1.3 cm Provenance: Amorgos. From Rhousopoulos 1873. R. Christensen, Febr. 1873 (Amorgos (10?)). Published: Worsaae 1879, 346 and 344, Fig. 12. (ref. Remouchamps in Internationales Archiv für Etnographie XXVIII, 1927, p. XLI, note 5). Montelius 1924, 106, Pl. 9, 1 (incorrectly reconstructed). Branigan 1974, 16, no. 491, Table 11 (incorrectly reconstructed). Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 17, no. 17, Tf. 4 (Variant 1). Comments: Karo Tp. A. For a very similar piece: Branigan 1977, 119 (also in Barber 1987, 101, Fig. 74) and Renfrew 1967 (cat. No. 71), Pl. 5 and Pl. 8 (Class VII). DATING: MMII-LMI/MHIII-LHI/IIA (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 26ff). DISTRIBUTION: East Crete, Peloponnese, Amorgos, N. Epirus and Albania, Rumania (Kilian-Dirlmeier 1993, 28, Tf. 60).