6th-4th century B.C. A mixed group of socketted and tanged bronze arrowheads, mainly triangular or foliate in section, trilobate and some with short socket, five with holes for application of incendiary material; one single tanged arrow, flat and triangular. See Furtwängler, A., Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung Band 4. 2 Bände (Textband, Tafelband), Asher, Berlin, 1890, pl.LXIV, nos.1076, 1079, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1086, 1090; Fields, N., Thermopylae 480 B.C., Last stand of the 300, Oxford, 2007, p.36. 200 grams total, 23-50 mm (7/8 - 2 in.) Ex private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. Archers, as well as slingers and javelin-throwers, were included in substantial numbers in the great Athenian expedition to Sicily in 415 B.C. 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 B.C. [50, No Reserve]Condition Report: Fair condition.