The arrowheads from Grd-i Tle (Rania Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan)

The first season of the excavations of Grd-i Tle yielded four arrowheads (two ’Scythian type’ trilobate bronze arrowheads and two iron arrowheads from the same archaeological context (SNR 133), from the debris outside the contemporary citywall. This article tries to examine on one hand the typology of the ancient Near Eastern arrowheads (with a special reference to the ’Scythian type’ trilobate bronze arrowheads and the Assyrian iron arrowheads), on the other hand the chronological consequences of these finds.