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LOT 1508
Greek Bronze Arrowheads with Original Shafts
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
1 3/4 - 2 1/4 in. (19.9 grams total, 45-57 mm).
Comprising four triangular tanged types and one leaf-shaped socketted type, four with original wooden shafts; rare. [5, No Reserve]
Provenance
Ex Robin Symes Gallery, Mayfair, pre 1999.
From a London, UK, collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at War, London, 2006, p.50, fig.8-11, for some of the specimens represented here.
Footnotes
Missile troops were not neglected in ancient Greece. In the mid-4th century B.C. Athens, inscriptions list boxes of arrows; in 282, a Cretan coach is recorded as being employed to train Athenian archers, and Sparta too had long since employed Cretan archers. Bow and quiver of great value were often the prize of sport competitions.
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