6th-3rd century B.C. A group of bronze socketted and tanged arrowheads comprising 31 tanged examples with a trilobate cross-section and very short or no socket; six socketted pyramidal heads; ten socketted foliate heads, three trilobate barbed heads and one tanged trilobate with long shaft. Cf. Furtwängler, A., Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung Band 4. 2 Bände (Textband, Tafelband), Asher, Berlin, 1890, pl.LXIV, nos.1076, 1084, 1086, 1090; Fields, N., Thermopylae 480 B.C., Last stand of the 300, Oxford, 2007, p.36. 180 grams total, 21-41 mm (3/4 - 1 5/8 in.). Ex private collection, 1980s. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1990s. Socketted trilobate arrow-head types were common in the Middle East from the 7th century B.C. and subsequently in Greece and Egypt. The Greek leaf-shaped, socketted and barbed types appear to originate in Anatolia and the Ionian cities in about 675 B.C., to be later widely spread throughout the Mediterranean and used until the 400 B.C. [50, No Reserve]