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LOT 1607
Bronze Age Socketted Spearhead
11TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
5 5/8 in. (76 grams, 14.3 cm).
With flared socket developing to a midrib with scooped ribbing in a leaf-shaped blade; opposed lateral holes to accept attachment pegs.
Provenance
Acquired on the German art market, 2000.
Private collection, Europe.
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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