Canaanite triangular dagger blade

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Recent massive rescue excavations at the Middle Bronze Age II cemetery of Rishon Le-Zion, supervised by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), have yielded one of the largest single-site assemblages of Canaanite weaponry ever recovered. Analyzing this corpus, Kan-Cipor-Meron established a refined typological sequence in which the artifact under analysis unequivocally represents a Type 2 dagger.
In Graham Philip's foundational comprehensive study, Metal Weapons of the Early and Middle Bronze Ages in Syria-Palestine (1989), the artifact fits the precise diagnostic criteria of a Type 17 dagger. Philip defines Type 17 daggers as having a long, triangular blade with slightly convex sides and a "wide, thick mid-rib". These daggers feature angular or square shoulders and short rectangular tangs, and are hafted via rivet holes pierced through the proximal end of the blade.