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AE Spear Butt (Counterpoise) #03
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Western Asia (likely NW Iran)
Early first millennium BC
18.1cm (7.13”)
Cf. Muscarella (Bronze and Iron, Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Figs. 518-519
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)
Description:
Socketed, tapered, tip broken, band of raised studs near socket, triangular motifs higher up, some encrustations.
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