Bronze Spear

Unidentified Luristan maker
Near East

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about 7th century BCE

Bronze

Overall: 18 1/2 in. (47 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

163.61.15166

Geography

Place Made: Iran, West Asia, Asia

Period

1000 BCE-1 CE

Object Name

Armament

Research Area

Near East

Not on view

Course History

REL 81, Dickinson Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion, Susannah Heschel, Fall 2012

ANTH 12.2, Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Daniel Potts, Spring 2014

Exhibition History

Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.

Provenance

Professor Robert J. Poor, Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1963.

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