| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | MF 2004 11 | |
| Title: | IRON SPEARHEAD | |
| Category Code: | MF | |
| Year: | 2004 | |
| Object Number: | 11 | |
| Description: | Spearhead with long socket (L. 0.10) with iron ring around its base, leaf-shaped blade with rounded shoulders, midrib running from bottom to tip of blade. Socket forged and not cast. Similar to spearhead from Toumba tomb 14, Lefkandi, LPG (Desborough, Greek Dark Ages, 1972, pl. 44). Snodgrass, Early Greek Armour and Weapons, 1964, type A, D or E? | |
| Material: | Iron. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Intact. Slit down center of one side of socket seems to have been original and not break, with iron ring around base of socket used to fasten and secure wooden shaft in place. Wooden shaft preserved inside hollow socket. Corroded. | |
| Period: | Early Geometric (900/875-850/825) | |
| Chronology: | Snodgrass Type A dates from Myc to 7th c. B.C; Type D is Myc to Geometric; Type E is Myc to 6th c. | |
| Area: | Panaghia south | |
| Context: | NB966 B68 P102, LOT 2004 055 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Panaghia south Images (5) Basket: NB966 B68 P102 Notebook Page: NB 966, spread 56 (pp. 102 - 103) |
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