Copper alloy spearhead

Copper alloy spearhead

Description:

Leaf-shaped blade with a hooked tang.


20in. (50.8cm)

Period:

Early Bronze Age I

Date:

2500 - 2000 BC

Collection:

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Provenance:

From Cyprus

References:

Myres, John L. 1914. Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus. no. 4626, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 1388, pp. 388-89, New York: Gilliss Press.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1933. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 5th ed. pp. 89, 91, fig. 116, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.McClees, Helen and Christine Alexander. 1941. The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans: As Illustrated in the Classical Collections, 6th ed. pp. 89, 91, fig. 116, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Accession Number:

74.51.5279