Arrowhead

A diamond-shaped tang and cross-section taper to the arrowhead’s terminal. The tang is a continuation from the middle, which extends along the blade to the point. The edges of the arrowhead are parallel and terminate in two narrow barbs. Ridges on either side of the tang show that this point was cast in a two-piece mold. A very similar arrowhead is known from the lower city at Boğazköy (1). NOTES: 1. See R. Boehmer, Die Kleinfunde aus der Unterstadt von Boğazköy: Grabungskampagnen, 1970-1978, Boğazköy-Hattusa 10 (Berlin, 1979) 22-23, no. 3154, pl. 15. Similar arrowheads from levels of the Hittite Empire were found elsewhere in Boğazköy: ibid., 22 n.84; see id., Die Kleinfunde von Boğazköy, Boğazköy-Hattusa 7 (Berlin, 1972) 105-109, nos. 830-45 and 865-73, esp. 871, pls. 28-29. David G. Mitten