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LOT 0314
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
14TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
7 7/8 in. (198 grams, 20 cm).
The socket of tapering round-section form, leaf-shaped head with midrib to both faces extending almost the full length.
Provenance
Acquired on the EU art market around 2000.
From the collection of a North American gentleman.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A., Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Ashmolean Museum, 1987, no.11.45 and 11.46, for the typology.
Footnotes
Bronze Age warriors often deposited personal equipment with the bodies of the deceased or as offerings in the rivers. Technological change was rapid: short daggers lengthened into rapiers and swords, axes developed new and more effective methods of hafting. More specialised equipment emerged, and small foliate spearheads were also present in the Koszider phase of bronzeworking.
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