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AE Spear Butt (Counterpoise) #02
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Western Asia (likely NW Iran)
Early first millennium BC
22.6cm (8.9”)
Cf. Khorasani (Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period), Cat. 287 (listed, perhaps erroneously, as a spearhead rather than as a spear butt)
Cf. Mahboubian (Art of Ancient Iran: Copper and Bronze), Figs. 398.b-c (examples listed, perhaps erroneously, as spearheads rather than as a spear butts)
Cf. Muscarella (Bronze and Iron, Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Figs. 518-519
Description:
Grooved and cylindrical socket ornamented with raised studs, square cross-section above socket, base of socket and tip broken.
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