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Auction archive: Lot number 0553

Indo-Gangetic Multi-Barbed Spearhead

Auction 21.11.2017
21 Nov 2017 - 25 Nov 2017
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$529 - US$794
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 0553

Indo-Gangetic Multi-Barbed Spearhead

Auction 21.11.2017
21 Nov 2017 - 25 Nov 2017
Estimate
£400 - £600
ca. US$529 - US$794
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

INDO-GANGETIC MULTI-BARBED SPEARHEAD Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial bronze spearhead or harpoon with thick midrib, notched barbed blade, pierced in two places above a round-section tang. 302 grams, 21.5cm (8 1/2"). Condition Fine condition. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).

Auction archive: Lot number 0553
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2017 - 25 Nov 2017
Auction house:
Timeline Auctions
23-24 Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6HE
United Kingdom
enquiries@timelineauctions.com
+44 (0)20 71291494
+44 (0)1277 814122
Beschreibung:

INDO-GANGETIC MULTI-BARBED SPEARHEAD Copper Hoard Culture, Uttar Pradesh, Northern India, mid-2nd millennium BC A substantial bronze spearhead or harpoon with thick midrib, notched barbed blade, pierced in two places above a round-section tang. 302 grams, 21.5cm (8 1/2"). Condition Fine condition. Extremely rare. Provenance Property of a West London gentleman; previously in an important weapons collection formed in the 1980s and early 1990s. Literature See Yule, P. The Bronze Age Metalwork of India, Prähistorische Bronzefunde XX, München, 1985 for discussion. Footnotes Some Copper Hoard items have been assigned a ritual rather than practical function (Yule: 1985).

Auction archive: Lot number 0553
Auction:
Datum:
21 Nov 2017 - 25 Nov 2017
Auction house:
Timeline Auctions
23-24 Berkeley Square
London, W1J 6HE
United Kingdom
enquiries@timelineauctions.com
+44 (0)20 71291494
+44 (0)1277 814122
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