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Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade
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LOT 1575

Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade

9TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

15 1/4 in. (729 grams, 38.5 cm).

With ovate blade, strong midrib and socketted shaft with fastening holes.

Provenance

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.

Literature

See Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 284, for type.

Footnotes

The massive spear was used by chariot fighters to strike each other, or strike the enemy infantry from above. Similar specimens with longer sockets were excavated by Negahban in Amlash area. According to Moorey, sockets as long, if not longer than the blade, are a characteristic of Iranian spearheads in the late 2nd and early 1st millennium B.C. A similar spearhead from the Tappeh Sialk has been dated 9th-7th century B.C.

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LOT 1575

Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade

Sold for (Inc. bp): £260

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