Lance Head ("Flügellanz")

Lance Head ("Flügellanz")

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This flanged lance head, or "flügellanz,"has a long tapering blade with a central rib on each face. The socket is flared, has a double lozenge motif on each face, and at each side there is an integral triangular flange. A hole found about each flange was for a nail to attach the lance head to a wooden shaft.


Medieval Art and The Cloisters

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Museum's collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world. Displayed in both The Met Fifth Avenue and in the Museum's branch in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters, the collection encompasses the art of the Mediterranean and Europe from the fall of Rome in the fourth century to the beginning of the Renaissance in the early sixteenth century. It also includes pre-medieval European works of art created during the Bronze Age and early Iron Age.