Amlash Type Spearhead

12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.

18 1/2 in. (468 grams, 47 cm).

Long, parallel-sided with deep midrib, broad tip, round-section neck with V-shaped recess to each face and thick square-section tang.

Provenance

Ex German collection, Cologne, 1980-1990s.

Literature

See Negahban, E., Weapons from Marlik, Berlin, 1995, plate VI, no.78; Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, items 279-280, for type.

Footnotes

This weapon belongs to the type 1 of the spear-head classification of Khorasani, mainly from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 BC.

CONDITION

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