Manufacturing Technique & Materials

Bronze metal casting mixed with copper, hammered together.

Designs/Symbolism

No Symbolism

Size

In inches for ethnographic objects, in cm for archaeological artifacts.
Green (Corroded Bronze) Spear: Length 34.5 cm, Width 2.5 cm (about 1 at base), thickness from about .5cm-1cm.
Bronze Spear: Length 31.25 cm, width about 3-4 cm (about 1 cm at base), thickness about .5 cm.
Bronze Knife: length about 14.5 cm, Width from 2-2.5 cm (about 1 cm at base), thickness dimunitive (about .10 cm).

Other Information
Siyalk is considered as the “origin of human technology and industry”. Copper artifacts were found dating as early as 3800 BC and bronze casting common in 3000 BC. Siyalk was ahead of other regions in metal work; in fact, almost a millennia ahead of close regions. However, it is not certain that these objects came from Siyalk; it may have been from a surrounding area, like Luristan which was also known for its metal works, especially bronze, but later in time. The time possibilities for Luristan are more around 3000-1250 BC (Iranian Bronze Age). This information is what causes the time era to be so broad. 

References
R. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pp. 249ff.; I. J. Winter, A Decorated Breastplate from Hassanlu, Iran, University Museum Monograph 39, 1980

 R. Ghirshman, Iran from the Earliest Times to the Islamic Conquest, Harmondsworth, 1954, pp. 73 ff. p. 84 p.87

Porada, Edith. "Review: [untitled]." Artibus Asiae 19.1 (1956): 92-94
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3248557

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Received in 1995, unknown donor.. Artifact research by Brooke Evans & Daedree Holmes