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Title
Elaborate Bronze Javelin Head
Description
Bronze javelin head. Very precise workmanship. Blade lobes hammered flat after casting. Triangular mid-rib continues as initially square, then rounded tang-neck. Short tang neck ends in a pronounced stop-ridge and continues as a long, square, thinning tang. Extremely thin and sharp edges, hammered after casting, tang square at 30 deg to blade. Beautiful azurite and malachite mineral patina on cassiterite layer on the blade.
Catalogue Number
84026513
Category
Period
1300 - 900 BCE
Culture
Elam, Aegean
Material
Bronze
Dimensions and weight
L: 182mm, weight 38,63 g W: 31 mm. Blade length 81 mm, neck 22 mm, tang 92 mm. Stop ridge 9 mm.
Reference Items
- Western Asiatic/Aegean, Ca. 1200 - 700 BC. Cf. Muscarella, O. W. (1988). Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, p.290.
- Muscarella 398. Bronze Arrow and Lance Head, Elamite Middle Period, c. 1300 - 900 B.C.
- Muscarella 398. Bronze Arrow and Lance Head, Elamite Middle Period, c. 1300 - 900 B.C.
Curator Rating
5





