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A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old

A Most Fine Bronze Age Leaf Shaped Spear Head With Tang Trojan War Period, from the Time of the legendary Heroes Paris, Hector, Achilles , Agamemnon & Helen of Troy. Around 3000 to 3200 years old

The for of ancient spear head traded around the Eastern Mediterranean from Persia to Greece in the 13th-7th century BC. A bronze leaf-shaped spearhead with central midrib and square-sectioned tang which terminates in right-angle turn. In remarkably good condition, with surface patination and a very good naturally aged colour.
180 grams, 7 3/4". provenance from a private collection in Cambridgeshire
Items such as this were oft acquired in the 18th century by British noblemen touring the Middle East, Northern France and Italy on their Grand Tour. Originally placed on display in the family 'cabinet of curiosities', within his country house upon his return home. A popular pastime in the 18th and 19th century, comprised of English ladies and gentlemen travelling for many months, or even years, throughout classical Europe, and the Middle East, acquiring antiquities and antiques for their private collections. A type of weapon often made by the renown bronze makers, in the valleys around the Zagros mountains, in the ancient Babylonian Kingdom period, but traded throughout the entire Eastern Mediterranean region 3000 odd years ago. The ancient Greeks believed the Trojan War was a historical event that had taken place in the 13th or 12th century BC, and believed that Troy was located in modern day Turkey near the Dardanelles. In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in many works of Greek literature, including Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey . "The Iliad" relates a part of the last year of the siege of Troy, while the Odyssey describes the journey home of Odysseus, one of the Achaean leaders. Other parts of the war were told in a cycle of epic poems, which has only survived in fragments. Episodes from the war provided material for Greek tragedy and other works of Greek literature, and for Roman poets such as Virgil and Ovid.
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