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LOT 1791
Western Asiatic Bronze Tanged Spearhead
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 3/8 in. (370 grams, 34 cm).
Slender blade with raised midrib and rectangular-section tang with clubbed finial.
ProvenanceEx Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
LiteratureCf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron, ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, no.176, for the type.
FootnotesA certain number of similar blades, some considered to be spearheads and others to be daggers, all with bent tang, derived from Tepe Hissar Culture III. Some of them, like our specimen, have a button terminal, others have a plain, pointed terminal. The general dating of these specimens is fixed to the early 2nd millennium B.C.
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