GREEK BRONZE HOPLITE SPEARHEAD WITH GEOMETRIC DECORATION Ca. 800 - 600 BC. A bronze spearhead with a triangular blade, decorated with engraved linear geometric motifs. The long socket may have originally housed a wooden handle. For similar see: Muscarella O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1988, n. cat. 66. Size: 480mm x 60mm; Weight: 320g. Provenance: Private UK collection; Formerly acquired on the European art market from pre-2000 collections.