Circa 1st millennium B.C. A massive bronze spearhead with long tapering blade having rounded shoulders and prominent mid-rib, the tang bent over at tip with round stud terminal. Cf. Christie's, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, part 2, London, 2004, item 40, p.36, although classified as a dagger blade. 612 grams, 50 cm (19 3/4 in.). Abelita family collection, 1980-2015. The metalworking techniques used in making bronze weapons in early Iran were veryplex. Surfaces were often finished in repoussé work, and some of the weapons were chased, others engraved. The ruling elites of warrior horsemen were buried in the graves with their weapons and horses.