Early Urartu Bronze Spearhead

17TH-16TH CENTURY B.C.

11 3/4 in. (165 grams, 29.7 cm).

With leaf-shaped blade, raised midrib extending to a tubular split socket with fastening holes.

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.XXXIII nos.127,128, from Urartu, for the type.

Footnotes

With the introduction of the socketted spearhead in the Middle East in the second half of the 3rd millennium B.C., by the middle of the 2nd millennium, these kind of spearheads became predominant throughout the ancient Near East, and the design of the spearhead remained practically unchanged since then.

CONDITION

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