LOT 1478 Greek Arrowhead Collection
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6th-4th century BC. A mixed group of trilobate bronze trefoil-section arrowheads with angular shape. See for discussion on the Scythian archery in the Greek World Connolly, P., Greece and Rome at war, London, 2006, pp.48-49; for similar examples of trilobate arrowheads the British Museum inv.1935,0823.93, from Leclère, F.and Spencer, A.J. Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town, 2014, p.72, p.183, pl.25. 170 grams total, 23-38mm (1 - 1 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. These copper-alloy arrowheads with angular shape and trefoil section and socket are also known as trilobate, or 'Scythian type'. The various images of Scythians on the Greek Pottery show the wide employment of these mercenary archers in the Greek World (Connolly, 2006, p.50 figs.1,5,6"). [48]
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