Late Bronze Age III

Bronze spearhead

This spearhead is datable to the time of the Trojan War. It comes from Cyprus, which was well known to Homer as the island of Aphrodite and as one of the places where the Greek heroes stopped on their way home from Troy. length 12 3/4in. (32.4cm)

Classification

Object type: Weapon
Material: MetalCopper and bronze
Period: Bronze AgeLate Cypriot (Late Bronze Age)Late Cypriot III
Date: 1199 - 1100 BC

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Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance

From Cyprus

References

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4697, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1418, pp. 394-95, New York: Gilliss Press.

Identifiers

Accession no.: 74.51.5307, Metropolitan Museum of Art
In catalogues: Myres 1914, no. 4697
Richter 1915, no. 1418

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