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LOT 1542
Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade
13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
16 3/4 in. (370 grams, 42.5 cm).
With large ovate blade, broad midrib, rounded shoulders and rectangular-section tang with bent tip ending with a button.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
See Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 278, for type.
FootnotesThe massive spearhead belongs to type 1 of the Khorasani classification. Similar excavated examples from Marlik attest the use of such spearheads with bent tang in the area, and Stutzinger dated such weapons to 1200-1100 B.C. The type was the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with straight square-section tang, usually thickened at the base with a button tang.
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LOT 1542
Massive Amlash Bronze Spearhead Blade
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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