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LOT 0289

Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead

CIRCA 1000 B.C.

5 3/4 in. (8 1/8 in.) (92 grams, 14.6 cm (152 grams total, 20.6 cm including stand)).

With flared socket developing to a midrib with scooped ribbing in a leaf-shaped blade; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs, and casting flaw close to the mouth; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Acquired on the German art market, from Gallery Christian Niederhuber, 2000.
European private collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

Literature

Cf. Ehrenberg, M., Bronze Spearheads from Berks, Bucks and Oxon, BAR 34, Oxford, 1977, item 37, for type.

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LOT 0289

Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead

Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)

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