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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1992.256.56
Title
Arrowhead
Classification
Weapons and Ammunition
Work Type
arrowhead
Date
15th-13th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Asia, Anatolia
Period
Hittite Empire period
Culture
Hittite
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/304203

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Copper alloy
Technique
Cast, lost-wax process
Dimensions
8.4 x 1.6 cm (3 5/16 x 5/8 in.)
Technical Details

Technical Observations: The patina is a smooth pale green with some bluish green patches, and there are some areas of exposed metal. Minor losses have occurred along the sharp edges. The arrowhead was cast and then worked to shape the shaft, edges, and tip.


Carol Snow (submitted 2002)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Louise M. and George E. Bates, Camden, ME (by 1971-1992), gift; to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1992.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Louise M. and George E. Bates
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
1992.256.56
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Published Catalogue Text: Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Bronzes at the Harvard Art Museums
A diamond-shaped tang and cross-section taper to the arrowhead’s terminal. The tang is a continuation from the middle, which extends along the blade to the point. The edges of the arrowhead are parallel and terminate in two narrow barbs. Ridges on either side of the tang show that this point was cast in a two-piece mold. A very similar arrowhead is known from the lower city at Boğazköy (1).

NOTES:

1. See R. Boehmer, Die Kleinfunde aus der Unterstadt von Boğazköy: Grabungskampagnen, 1970-1978, Boğazköy-Hattusa 10 (Berlin, 1979) 22-23, no. 3154, pl. 15. Similar arrowheads from levels of the Hittite Empire were found elsewhere in Boğazköy: ibid., 22 n.84; see id., Die Kleinfunde von Boğazköy, Boğazköy-Hattusa 7 (Berlin, 1972) 105-109, nos. 830-45 and 865-73, esp. 871, pls. 28-29.


David G. Mitten

Subjects and Contexts

  • Ancient Bronzes

Verification Level

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