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  2. Paper: The Achaemenid Empire, 550-330 BC
  3. Unit: Week 7 - Drinking and Dining

Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük

Commentary

Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük
Accession number: 
AN1913.714
Collection: 
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Javelin head/arrowhead from Deve Hüyük

Iron javelin head or arrowhead with lanceolate blade; exceptionally long tang for fixing to wooden shaft. 
0.150m (length); weight c. 14g.  
Moorey 1980, no. 190 (Ashmolean 1913.714).

Commentary

The Deve Hüyük assemblage includes eleven small, light "spearheads" of this type, weighing between 11g and 16g, with flat iron blades and extended tangs for fitting into a notched wooden shaft. It is unclear whether these were for very light javelins or for very heavy arrows: Moorey opts for the former (Moorey 1980, pp. 60-64).