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LOT 1521
Large Greek Socketted Iron Spearhead
SARISSA, CIRCA 3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
15 1/8 in. (826 grams, 38.5 cm).
Comprising a leaf-shaped lentoid-section blade and long tubular socket.
ProvenanceEx Hermann Historica, 7 October 2009, no.207 (Part).
Private collection, Germany.
Kept in the UK from 2016.
Cf. Sekunda, N., Macedonian Armies after Alexander 323-168 BC, Oxford, 2012, p.14, for similar spearhead.
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