Western Asiatic Bronze Tanged Spearhead

14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

10 5/8 in. (213 grams, 27.1 cm).

Leaf-shaped blade with triangular midrib and a rectangular-section tang.

Provenance

Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.

Literature

See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat.270, for type.

Footnotes

Similar spearheads were excavated in the Marlik Royal cemetery by Dr. Negahban, see for example in tomb 47, Trench XXIIE. They were the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with a straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. The foliate blade was wide and exaggerated in some specimens excavated at Marlik.

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