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LOT 1067
Western Asiatic Bronze Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
9 1/4 in. (134 grams, 23.5 cm).
Having ovate blade with central rib and slender shoulders, cylindrical short shaft marked by circular grooves broading towards the end, encasing a rectangular tang with a bent end.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf.Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003), pl.XXXIII no.82 (Tepe-Hissar, layer
IIIC) for similar weapon;
Footnotes
In the 3rd millennium until the first half of the 2nd millennium in the Near and Middle East, in India, the Caucasus and Central Asia, a stalked tip was used for the spear heads, and this model developed in Mesopotamia in the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. The main types were with a facetted blade on a volumetric pin and a leaf-shaped blade on a flat handle with holes for rivets. The same models spread almost unchanged to the Caucasus, Anatolia and Bactria.
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