Near Eastern
Three Near Eastern bronze spear heads, Bronze Age, circa 3rd - 2nd Millennium BC
Bronze
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
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 1970sLiterature
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).1
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