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LOT 1492
Greek and Other Bronze Arrowhead Group
4TH CENTURY B.C. AND LATER
11/2 - 2 5/8 in. (20 grams total, 39-67 mm).
Comprising three arrowheads, one socketted with a lateral spur, one barbed and tanged, and the third a flat-section barbed and tanged type. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. for similar arrowheads Tsaravopoulos, A., ‘Evidence of war in a Pirates ’City of the Hellenistic Period (Island Antikythera/Aigilia Greece)’ in Sirbu, V., Schuster, C., Hortopan, D., Warriors and their weapons in Bronze and Iron Ages, Proceedings of the 21st International Colloquium of Funerary Archaeology 25th-28th May, 2023, Târgu Jiu, Gorj County (Romania), Braila, 2023, pp.301-320, figs.9-10.
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