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LOT 1447
Greek Period High Quality Large Bronze Arrowhead Collection
5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
1 1/4 - 1 7/8 in. (49 grams total, 30-47 mm).
Socketted with leaf-shaped, triangular-section, barbed and other types. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an English collection formed before 2000.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1447
Greek Period High Quality Large Bronze Arrowhead Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Greek Period High Quality Large Bronze Arrowhead Collection
5th-3rd century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Socketted with leaf-shaped, triangular-section, barbed and other types. 49 grams total, 30-47 mm
From an English collection formed before 2000. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Leaf-shaped blade with raised midrib extending to the shaft with a collar, rectangular section tang. 205 grams, 35 cm
Ex North London, UK, collection, 1990s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Spearheads
14th-10th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
The leaf-shaped ovate blade with rounded, gently curved shoulders and raised midrib, flat rectangular-sectioned tang tapering to a bent end with a fastening button; in one specimen the tang is protruding from the 'blade sheath'. 507 grams total, 26-27.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Similar spearheads were excavated in the Marlik Royal cemetery by Dr Negahban, see for example in tomb 47, Trench XXIIE. They were the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. The foliate blade was wide and exaggerated in some specimens excavated at Marlik.