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

Spearhead from Deve Hüyük

Commentary

Spearhead from Deve Hüyük
Accession number: 
AN 1913.710
Collection: 
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford

Spearhead from Deve Hüyük

Heavy iron spearhead with short folded socket; single rivet-hole at the base of the socket, for securing wooden shaft to socket. Long flat blade with no midrib. 
0.256m (total length); 0.085m (length of socket). 
Moorey 1980, no. 168 (Ashmolean 1913.710).

Commentary

This heavy spearhead (from a thrusting spear) resembles the spears of Persian guards depicted on the Persepolis reliefs and on glazed-brick panels from the Palace of Darius at Susa, although spearheads on the Persian reliefs tend to have a prominent midrib on the blade.