Early 3rd millennium B.C. A leaf-shaped bronze blade with rounded shoulders and square-sectioned mid-rib running to the tip of the blade, the blade with a bottleneck below the ricasso; bent tang. See Gernez, G., L’armament en métal au Proche et Moyen-Orient: des origines a 1750 av. J.C., Paris, 2007, fig.85 variant L 2A.c, for the type. 280 grams, 40.5 cm long (16 in.). With Coincraft, Great Russel Street, London, WC1, UK. Ex Z. Amrolia collection. Apanied by an old Coincraft certificate of authenticity. The spear finds correspondence with an example from tomb S 19 - Loc 2 of the necropolis of Kheit Qasim, belonging to the Early Dynastic Period in Mesopotamia. The typology is of the tripartite spears with hypertrophied rounded leaf blade. [No Reserve]