spear-head
- Museum number
- 128704
- Description
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Copper alloy spear-head; flat section; cast.
- Dimensions
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Length: 16.19 centimetres
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Weight: 46 grammes
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Width: 1.11 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Iranian Room [IR], case [c]/B.
- 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
- 128704
- Registration number
- 1936,0613.89
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: T.G.320 (Tepe Giyan number)