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LOT 1282
Bronze Age European Spearhead
LATE 2ND-EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
14 3/4 in. (211 grams, 37.4 cm).
Leaf-shaped, with bevelled edges and lozenge-sectioned mid-rib, socket pierced twice.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf. Leshtakov, L., ‘Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Bronze Spear- and Javelinheads in Bulgaria in the Context of Southeastern Europe’ in Archaeologia Bulgarica, XV, 2, (2011), 25-52, fig.2, no.4.
Footnotes
The shape of the blade resembles a willow leaf with its widest part situated in the middle of its length. The origin of this shape is still not very clear. It was probably invented somewhere in Anatolia or the Near East. In the Aegean it appears for the first time in LH II A, before spreading around Western Europe.
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LOT 1282
Bronze Age European Spearhead
Estimate £300 - 400€350 - 460 (for guidance only)$410 - 540 (for guidance only)
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