ANCIENT GREEK BRONZE SPEARS (2) AND BLADE (1)
1200 – 800 BC. Greek Archaic period. Lot of a bronze blade and two ancient bronze spearheads; 1) rectangular bronze blade with tang, point missing; 2-3) two spearheads with triangular-shaped, lentoid-section blades with raised midribs, short necks and tangs. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Good condition. Size: L:67-135mm; 45g. Provenance: Property of a London gallery, previously in old British collection formed in the 1980s.
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1200 – 800 BC. Greek Archaic period. Lot of a bronze blade and two ancient bronze spearheads; 1) rectangular bronze blade with tang, point missing; 2-3) two spearheads with triangular-shaped, lentoid-section blades with raised midribs, short necks and tangs. Bronze weaponry production flourished in western Asia, the Aegean, and Mainland Greece from the 2nd millennium BC to about 700 BC, when it was gradually replaced by iron. Swords, spears, and arrows were important symbols of war in Greek Bronze Age societies and served as powerful reminders that authority rested in the hands of those who could earn it. Good condition. Size: L:67-135mm; 45g. Provenance: Property of a London gallery, previously in old British collection formed in the 1980s.
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