LOT 1357 Greek Arrowhead Collection
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6th-3rd century B.C. A group of bronze socketted and tanged arrowheadsprising twenty-nine tanged examples with a trilobate cross-section and very short or no socket; eight socketted pyramidal heads; twelve socketted foliate heads and one tanged trilobate head with long shaft. Cf. 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; Sekunda, N., Marathon 490 B.C.,The first Persian invasion of Greece, Oxford, 2002, p.60. 195 grams total, 23-41 mm (7/8 - 1 5/8 in.). Ex private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. Greek armies often employed Cretan and Scythian archers. Both usedposite bows made of wood, horn, bone and sinew. This explains the great range of Scythian arrowheads also found on the Greek sites. [50, No Reserve]
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