Near Eastern, Three Near Eastern copper alloy spear heads, Bronze Age, circa 3rd - 2nd Millennium BC

Near Eastern

Three Near Eastern copper alloy spear heads, Bronze Age, circa 3rd - 2nd Millennium BC

Copper alloy

Length: 35 cm - 38.9 cm

Each tripartite bronze spear-point featuring a leaf-shaped double-edged blade with a flat midrib, the wide rounded shoulders narrowing to an octagonal, ridged straight shaft, with horizontal ridged detail

Provenance

Private collection, London, acquired in the early 1970s

Literature

These spears are a rare type with their fine octagonal detail, and even more unusually, the horizontal ridges on the shaft which are thought to mimic the strapping that would have secured the blade to the staff. They belong to Gernez's type L 2.C: G.L. Gernez, Armament en métal au Proche et Moyen-Orient: des origines a 1750 av. J.C., Paris, 2007, p. 303, Fig. 2.89 (vol. 1); aa 43 (vol.2).

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