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Set of arrowheads (four hundred and sixty-seven complete heads and fifty-four fragmentary ones) in the shape of a circle segment carved in carnelian. Most were arrow heads with a transversal cutting edge. In other words, the bevelled rectilinear side of the head was perpendicular to the shaft and assured contact and impact. The circular side, the back of the head, was directly fitted to the hard wooden shaft, which was set in the stalk of a reed.  Occasionally, other heads were placed right under the main arrow head, on either side of the shaft (cant parallel to the shaft, this time), thus creating a barbed arrow.  These were fixed to the wood with a dark bronze-green adhesive.

Lot d'armatures de flèche (quatre cent soixante-sept entières et cinquante-quatre fragmentaires) en forme de segment de cercle à dos abattu taillées dans de la cornaline. La plupart faisaient office de pointes à tranchant transversal. L'impact était en effet assuré par le biseau rectiligne du segment, qui était perpendiculaire à l'axe de la flèche et dont le dos s'appuyait directement sur le bout plat d'un fût en bois dur, lui-même enchâssé dans une tige de roseau. D'autres, placés sous la pointe, de part et d'autre du fût de bois, formaient parfois des barbelures, le biseau étant cette fois parallèle à l'axe de la flèche. Leur fixation sur le bois était assurée par un ciment de couleur vert bronze foncé.

Set of arrowheads (four hundred and sixty-seven complete heads and fifty-four fragmentary ones) in the shape of a circle segment carved in carnelian. Most were arrow heads with a transversal cutting edge. In other words, the bevelled rectilinear side of the head was perpendicular to the shaft and assured contact and impact. The circular side, the back of the head, was directly fitted to the hard wooden shaft, which was set in the stalk of a reed.  Occasionally, other heads were placed right under the main arrow head, on either side of the shaft (cant parallel to the shaft, this time), thus creating a barbed arrow.  These were fixed to the wood with a dark bronze-green adhesive.

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