Circa 1800-900 B.C.. Including triangular-section, barbed, paddle-shaped, and other types. See Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff., for similar arrowheads; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, fig.467, for the barbed and triangular type. 353 grams total, 4-12 cm (1 5/8 - 4 3/4 in.).
Paddle-shaped arrowheads with a flat, comparatively wide mid-rib and the blade shaped to a point were typical of Old Babylonian Empire. The shoulders were pronounced and the arrowhead had a rectangular-section tapering tang. They are the majority in this group, which comprises also barbed triangular arrowheads of type V from Marlik-Luristan, and one interesting specimen of trilobate arrowhead.
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s. [35]
Price realized | 180 GBP |
Starting price | 180 GBP |
Estimate | 200 GBP |