This paper is an overview of two archeological finds of spearheads from Ani (in the form of a trident with a central straight prong and two side curved hooks) and Dvin (long and heavy spearhead, oval in form, flat in section with round socket). Well-known Byzantine, Georgian, Kyivan Rus’, and Muslim Near East archeological, pictorial, and figurative sources will be compared to elucidate the purpose, dating, and origin of the above-mentioned spearheads.
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