Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Commentary
Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Accession number:
AN 1913.710
Collection:
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Heavy iron spearhead with short folded socket; single rivet-hole at the base of the socket, for securing wooden shaft to socket. Long flat blade with no midrib.
0.256m (total length); 0.085m (length of socket).
Moorey 1980, no. 168 (Ashmolean 1913.710).
Commentary
This heavy spearhead (from a thrusting spear) resembles the spears of Persian guards depicted on the Persepolis reliefs and on glazed-brick panels from the Palace of Darius at Susa, although spearheads on the Persian reliefs tend to have a prominent midrib on the blade.