The fractured obsidian arrowhead (right) is one of the few examples of this material being used in Mari to make arrowheads. Suddenly interrupted at the end of the 4th millennium, the circulation of obsidian from the southern fringes of Anatolia to central Mesopotamia seems to have reopened in the last third of the 3rd millennium: evidence is found in the assemblages of City III, such as this denticulated example, qualified as Akkadian, which became broadly standard from the great alluvial plain to Al-Jazira and the northern coast of the Levant.

Object nos. 2009 (Massif Rouge, City II) and 2069 (Massif Rouge area, City III). 1951 and 1952 campaigns.