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THBAncient African Mauritanian Copper Spear Point
Lot 117
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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By Artemis Gallery
Nov 14, 2019
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2019-11-14 10:00:00
2019-11-14 10:00:00
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Featuring Pre-Columbian, Tribal / Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, historical examples from the Spanish, Mexican, and American frontiers, fossils, and more. All items offered for sale have been legally acquired, are legal to sell and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Northern / Western Africa, Mauritania, Akjoujt region, ca. mid 1st millennium BCE. A rare, fascinating copper spear point from a little studied region. The spear point is leaf-shaped, with a narrow midrib that runs its length, bisecting the blade, before flaring into a conical socket with a rolled rim. Two small holes near the base of the socket would have had pins or nails to hold a wooden shaft in place. Where the edges of the blade meet the socket, there is a slight raised line of copper, striated with short, tightly packed lines that give it a gripping texture - perhaps designed to tear the flesh of whatever the spear point had pierced. Size: 1.4" W x 8.6" H (3.6 cm x 21.8 cm)
The copper mines at Akjoujt, located in western Mauritania, are some of the oldest known south of the Tropic of Cancer, and they were in use sometime around 500 BCE. One of these was a three-chambered mine called the Grotte aux Chauves-souris (Grotto of the Bats), a man-made hollow that has been radiocarbon dated to this time period. Furnaces found in neighboring regions indicate that this copper was traded far and wide.
Provenance: private southwestern Pennsylvania, USA collection
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#147276Socket is bent at tip and there are tiny losses from blade edges but otherwise in very nice condition with clear form. Collection label is written in black ink in two places on the point.Condition
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