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LOT 1187
Amlash Bronze Spear Blade
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
10 1/2 in. (299 grams, 26.7 cm).
Leaf-shaped blade with pronounced midrib, square-section neck with flared ends and thick square-section tang.
Provenance
Ex German collection, Cologne, 1980-1990s.
Literature
See Negahban, E., Weapons from Marlik, Berlin, 1995, plate VI, no.78; Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 278, for type.
Footnotes
The spearhead belongs to the type I of tripartite spears with broad mid-rib, reinforced shaft opening to reveal the tang and rounded shoulders. The blade with curved shoulders, a sharp point and a rectangular mid-rib. Stutzinger dated these pieces to 1200-1100 B.C.
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