Bronze spearhead

Bronze spearhead

Description:

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)

Period:

Late Bronze Age III

Date:

1199 - 1100 BC

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.

Accession Number:

74.51.5307