ANCIENT Italian BRONZE AGE Villanovan Bronze SPEAR POINT Circa 2500+ years OLD

Description

Bronze spear-heads
, together with other types of weaponry and armour,
formed the most prized possessions
of Villanovan and Etruscan aristocratic warriors.
In death, these were included as part of the
votive offerings placed in the tomb
as a reflection of a
warrior’s rank and importance
.
This spear-head has a tubular socket for fastening to a wooden shaft.
It is decorated with hatched triangles incised around the socket and base of blade shaft, with an off-set collar of incised rope pattern at the end.
The description below was "borrowed" from an old Christies Auction house sale item, that you can SEE on-line Via the URL "link" below (You will NEED to "Cut & Paste" it)
https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-a-villanovan-bronze-spear-head-circa-8th-7th-5903797/?
The image of their LONG-AGO-SOLD Bronze Villanovan Spear Point can be "clicked on" to GREATLY enlarge it & you will see that the engravings are extremely similar to those so-readily visible on this sadly cleaned but GENUINE ANCIENT ARTIFACT
A VILLANOVAN BRONZE SPEAR HEAD CIRCA 8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
The elongated lanceolate blade tapering to a sharp tip, the raised rounded midrib conforming to the shape of the blade, the hollow shaft conical in form and faceted, with hatched triangles incised along the lower edges of the blade, columns of stamped dotted rings on either side of the shaft, an off-set collar of incised rope pattern at the end, perforated twice for attachment
Price realised US$ 6,250 Estimate US,000 – US$ 8,000 Closed: 4 Jun 2015
The Villanovan culture (c. 900–700 BC), regarded as the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization, was the earliest Iron Age culture of Italy. It directly followed the Bronze Age Proto-Villanovan culture which branched off from the Urnfield culture of Central Europe
The name derives from the locality of Villanova, a fraction of the municipality of Castenaso in the Metropolitan City of Bologna where, between 1853-1855, Giovanni Gozzadini found the remains of a necropolis, bringing to light 193 tombs, of which there were 179 cremations & 14 inhumations
The Villanovans introduced iron-working to the Italian Peninsula. They practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape.
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