Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Commentary
Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Accession number:
AN 1913.711
Collection:
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford
Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Heavy iron spearhead with medium-length folded socket, broken at base. Flat blade with gently rounded shoulders and almost no midrib.
0.272m (total length); 0.110m (length of socket).
Moorey 1980, no. 169 (Ashmolean 1913.711).
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.