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LOT 1065
Amlash Type Spearhead
13TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
15 3/4 in. (436 grams, 40 cm).
A bronze tanged spearhead with heavily ridged and tapered blade with short collared shaft and square section tapered tang of recangular section.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
See similar typology in Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.629, cat.278.
FootnotesThe weapon belongs to the type 1 of the spearhead classification by Khorasani, mainly from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
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