BEVELED KNIFE WITH RECTANGULAR-SHAPED END

Description The knife has a thin handle, with a rounded section and is slightly curved. The slight curvature continues into the back of the wide, beveled blade, which is still sharp: the cut rises, arching up to the tip, which is located at the end of the back of the knife, while the heel forms a right angle to rejoin the blade to the handle. This ends with a sort of parallelepiped-shaped knob, the long side of which is oriented parallel to the blade. It is perforated so as to form a concentric quadrangle on each of the five faces - the sixth is the one connecting to the handle. Some knives of a similar type have been found at a number of Western Zhou sites in Shaanxi. The main different between those and this example is the higher level of detail in the handle for the latter.