13th-4th century BC. A bronze arrowhead collection comprising three different typologies: a Greek leaf-shaped type with mid rib ending with socket, single barb on one side; a Greek leaf-shaped type with tang; eight Chinese Shang or Western Zhou triangular-shaped type with socket and barbs. See for similar leaf-shaped arrowheads BM inv. no.1883,0725.12, in Walters, H.B., Bronze / Catalogue of the Bronzes in the British Museum. Greek, Roman & Etruscan, London, 1899, no.2813; leaf-shaped tanged in BM EA21728; for the Chinese arrowheads see the examples in BM 1952,1029.17. 170 grams total, 40-87mm (1 1/2 - 3 1/2"). Property of a North London gentleman; acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. The Greek leaf-shaped, socketted and barbed types appear to originate in Anatolia and the Ionian cities in about 675BC, to be later widely spread throughout the Mediterranean and used until the 400 BC. The Western Zhou or late Shang barbed arrowheads are confirmed by the archaeology to date between circa 1200 and 901 BC. [25]

Fair condition.