A bronze dagger from the Moldavian Subcarpathians
A bronze dagger from the Moldavian Subcarpathians

Summary/Abstract: The authors present some data about a bronze dagger identified in a village museum collection from Neamț County, which, although it was reported in the archaeological literature, did not benefit from a pertinent discussion regarding the typology and chronology. The artifact does not have a known archaeological context, but it comes, most likely, from the Subcarpathian region of Moldavia. The dagger presents a tang and rivets, but also a longitudinal rib, being completely covered by green patina. Although at the first publication it was attributed to the Noua culture (Late Bronze Age), its typological features and analogies from the Füzesabony-Otomani cultural environment lead us to reconsider the original cultural framing and date it to a stage of the Middle Bronze Age. Besides the dagger presented in this note, in the region to the east of the Carpathians we know another specimen, in Țibucani (Neamț County), whose origin is also in the area of Füzesabony-Otomani culture.

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