5th-4th century BC. A group of thirty-nine bronze socketted arrow heads, including incendiary examples, composed of various types. See Furtwängler, A., Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung Band 4"). 2 Bände (Textband, Tafelband"). Asher, Berlin,1890, plate LXIV nos.1064,1090; Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at war, London, 2006, p.50, nos.8,9,10. 65 grams total, 13-31mm (1/2 - 1 1/4"). Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher; previously in a Hamburg collection formed in the 1980s. Archers, as well as slingers and javelin-throwers, were included in substantial numbers in the great Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415 BC. Here they were faced by an enemy - the Syracusan Greeks - who had been surpassed by mainland Greece in the development of archery: 2000 archers were already counted in the army of Gelon of Syracuse in 480 BC. [39, No Reserve] Condition Report Fine condition.