Greek Arrowhead Collection 6th-4th century B.C. A mixed group of socketted and tanged bronze arrowheads, mainly trilobate or foliate in section, some with short socket, some without; five with holes for the application of incendiary material; one single tanged arrow, flat and triangular. See Furtwängler, A., Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung Band 4. 2 Bände (Textband, Tafelband), Asher, Berlin, 1890, pl.LXIV, nos.1076, 1079, 1082, 1083, 1086; see also similar examples of conical, trilobate and leaf-shaped Greek arrowheads in Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at war, London, 2006, p.50, nos.8, 9, 10. 190 grams total, 22-45 mm (7/8 - 1 3/4 in.). Ex private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. In the Persian wars, Greeks and Iranians (and their specialist archers, like Scythians and Cretans) would have used bronze or iron arrows of various types, which varied in length from three to four centimetres. Many were trilobite in shape, varying from the simple triangular head, the leaf-shaped head or the triangular head with a square section, tang and directional plumes. [50, No Reserve]