Arrowhead. Barbed deltoid blade with prominent mid-rib; in section, square tang, tip now lost. Corrosive losses on one cutting edge and loss of one barb. Green patina. Parallel lines interspaced with X’s carved on both lower halves of mid-rib. Total L. 10. 6 cm. Tang 4.0 cm. Arrowheads of the deltoid form are widely distributed in Western Persia from the late 2nd Early 1st millennium B.C. aand are presursors of the winged arrowheads which have the same distribution: Persian Talish, Dailaman, Marlik, Amlash, Khurvin; in Kurdistan Bit Sorgh; cemetery B from Sialk and in Lursitan.
Donor:
Bruno A. Schiro and Mary R. Schiro
Collection place:
Iran (Persia)
Verbatim coll. place:
Iran, late 2nd, early 1st millennium BC
Collector:
Bruno A. Schiro and Mary R. Schiro
Materials:
Bronze (metal)
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Arrowheads (arrow components) and Arrowheads (lithic projectile points)
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
width 34 millimeters, length 117 millimeters, and length 3 millimeters