Mycenaean-type bronze spearhead

XV-XIII century B.C.E.
Carpathian basin and South-Eastern Europe

Cast. The long and narrow leaf-shaped blade with all-in-one cast socket. The hollow of the socket continues in the lower half of the blade. Three ridges on the blade. Ridges running along the blade and the socket was standard for the Aegean and typical for Balkans and East-Central Europe. Two diametrically opposed holes for rivets at lower socket to secure the shaft. Length 16.3″(41.3 cm), Width 1.6″(4.2 cm).
For published examples of similar spearheads see:
-S. Alexandrov, Y. Dimitrova,  H. Popov,  B. Horejs , K. Chukalev (eds.), Gold and Bronze. Metals, Technologies and Interregional Contacts in the Eastern Balkans during the Bronze Age, Sofia 2018, cat. 449.
– K. Demakopoulou and J. H. Crouwel Some Mycenaean Tombs at Palaiokastro, Arcadia. The Annual of the British School at Athens The Annual of the British School at Athens Vol. 93 (1998), pp. 275, fig 7.
-Avila, R.A.J. Bronzene Lanzen-und Pfeilspitzen der griechischen Spätbronzezeit , Munich, 1983, Т. 8/44-45, Т. 16/106)
-Höckmann, O. 2007. ZuLanzenspitzen ägäischer Artaus Bulgarien. In: Prae. Inhonorem Henrieta odoro- va. Soa. 215-224
-L. Leshtakov, Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Bronze Spear- and Javelin heads in Bulgaria in the Context of Southeastern Europe, Archaeologia Bulgarica, XV, 2 (2011), 25-52, fig.2, 1, 2.