13th-14th century AD. A mixed group of three graduated iron incendiary arrowheads, eachposed of a tapering round-section tang and triangular-section head, each with a different profile, pierced. See Golyzhenkov, N., Dzis, I., ????? ?? ?????, 31 ??? 1223, Moscow, 1994, p.6, 9, 17; Gorelik, M., Mongol-Tatar Armies, X-XIV centuries (in Rsian), Moscow, 2002, p.61; Turnbull, S., Mongol Warrior 1200-1350, Oxford, 2003, pl.A. 45 grams total, 6.6-14.5cm (2 1/2 - 5 3/4"). European art market before the late 1990s. California, A, collection formed since the late 1960s. Mongol quivers contained arrows with several types of arrowhead: poisoned arrows are known to have been ed and there is a specific reference to them in the accounts of the Mongol invasion of Japan (1274 AD"). Others were fitted with incendiary material, others conceived to pierce cuirass and metallic protections, a result achieved by the powerfulposite bow of the Mongols. [3, No Reserve]