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Lot 84*

Two Roman Securis, Two Bronze Spearheads, And Five Iron Spearheads
1200 B.C. To 16th Century A.D.

22 April 2009, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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Two Roman Securis, Two Bronze Spearheads, And Five Iron Spearheads
1200 B.C. To 16th Century A.D.

All in excavated condition, the securis each of iron and of characteristic single-edged billhook form, with integral tapering cylindrical sockets; the second each with double-edged leaf-shaped point and integral open-sided tapering cylindrical socket, one Greek (600 B.C.), and the other Luristan (1800-1200 B.C.); the iron spearheads comprising two with leaf-shaped point, one with diamond-section point, one with sharply tapering rectangular point, and one with barbed point, all with integral socket of tapering cylindrical form (9)
11.3 cm. to 26 cm.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Dr. John Waldman Collection
The barbed spearhead, Hermann Historica, Munich, 19 October 2000, lot 1996

Literature:
One of the securis, John Waldman, Hafted Weapons in Medieval and Renaissance Europe ..., 2005, p. 117, fig. 95b

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