second half 7th-6th century BCE
4.8 x 1.4 x 0.6 cm (1 7/8 x 9/16 x 1/4 in.)
Brought from Sardis; by Frederick Marquand Godwin, New York, (by 1914), by descent; to his wife Dorothy W. Godwin, New York (1914-1964), gift; to the Fogg Museum of Art, 1964. Note: Frederick M. Godwin was the photographer for the excavations at Sardis with Howard Crosby Butler in 1913 and 1914.
Spearhead: steel; Sheath: wood, leather
17th-20th centuryIndianLead
Iron
JapaneseLead
Bronze
6th-2nd century BCENear Eastern
Iron
1st century BCESteel, jade
19th centuryIndianLead
Copper alloy
3rd-2nd millennium BCEUnidentified cultureArsenical copper
3rd millennium BCECypriot
Bronze, iron
4th century BCELead or Pewter