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Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
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LOT 1411

Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead

CIRCA 19TH CENTURY B.C.

10 1/8 in. (183 grams, 25.6 cm).

With foliate blade and tapering socket. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Literature

Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXXIV, no.1, for identical spearhead from Kanesh (Nesa or Kultepe).

Footnotes

The bronze spearhead developed considerably during the period of the Assyrian colonies in Anatolia and even during the period Karum III-IV, maintaining consistently its southern shape. Conical points are also known from Bogazkoy's Karum levels. While spearheads from the first half of the 2nd millennium B.C. were hafted by means of a tang, with two slots in the blade providing additional support, most of the Late Bronze Age spearheads were socketted.

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LOT 1411

Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead

Sold for (Inc. bp): £39

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