arrow-head
- Museum number
- 128700
- Description
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Copper alloy arrow-head; cast; sharp flat blade with a prominent midrib extending into a long square-sectioned tang.
- Production date
- 2000BC-700BC (between)
- Dimensions
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Length: 7.50 centimetres
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Weight: 11 grammes
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Thickness: 0.60 centimetres
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Width: 1.60 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Belongs to a general type found in western and north-west Iran and dating between the 2nd and early 1st millennia BC, of which examples have been excavated in graves in Luristan at Tang-i Hamamlan (O. W. Muscarella, Bronze and Iron, New York 1988, pp. 289-92, cat. nos 396-418).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition of this collection was highlighted in the 'Annual Report of the General Progress of the Museums for the year 1936' (BM BM (Natural History) 1937, pp. 10-11) as "A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., and for the most part from known sites; specially selected to illustrate periods not hitherto represented, or inadequately represented, in the collection".
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 128700
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.85