Bronze tanged spearhead

Iron Age I, II Millennium B.C., Caspian Area to Eastern Persia

Cast. Triangular blade with rhomboidal cross-section midrib and long shank stepped to rectangular-section tang with a “button” terminal. 

L. 12.2″(30.8 cm), W. 1.4″(3.5 cm).

For related type see:
– Moorey P.R.S Catalog of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford, 1971, p.88: cat # 84.
– E.Haerinck, The Iron age in Guilan-Proposal for a chronology, plate 64,  in “Bronze-working centres of Western Asia C.1000-539 B.C.”, John Curtis (Ed.), 1988, Kegan Paul International, London (in association with the British Museum)