Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
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Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
Accession number:
AN1913.597.a & b
Collection:
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Arrowheads from Deve Hüyük
Two trilobe socketed bronze arrowheads; short socket for fixing onto shaft, and three triangular barbs.
0.011m x 0.031m.
Moorey 1980, nos. 196 and 197 (Ashmolean 1913.597a & b).
Commentary
These light arrowheads are the only bronze items of weaponry in the Deve Hüyük assemblage; all other weapons were of iron. Iron arrowheads would need to be individually hand-forged, while bronze arrowheads could be mouldmade, permitting mass production of arrowheads at much greater speed. Light arrowheads of this kind were particularly suitable for the use of mounted archers.