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LOT 1165
Amlash Pottery Jug with Zoomorphic Handle
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
10 1/2 in. (756 grams, 26.8 cm).
Comprising a tall conical body and broad base with funicular mouth and loop handle.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, 1988-2000s.
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Western Asiatic Stone Stamp Seal with Inscription
1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £200
Pierced tapering handle to reverse, billeted border enclosing profile standing bull and legend in Indus Valley script. 21.1 grams, 28 mm
From the London collection of the late Mr S.M., 1969-1999. -
Luristan Bronze Dagger Blade
800-600 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
With a triangular blade fitted with three fullers, with a handle cast onto the blade, showing three fastening holes. 72 grams, 20 cm
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
These weapons belong to the Early Median and Achaemenid Period. The blades were often inserted inside an openwork scabbard, cast with the lost wax process, while the handle was instead cast onto the blade. -
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
1200-1100 B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £125
With an ovate blade, central rib and curved shoulders, the lozenge-section long shaft tapering towards the end, a rectangular tang with a bent tip. 830 grams, 40 cm
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
The spearhead represents a slender variant of type 1 of the Khorasani classification. The type 1 was characterised by a bent tang. It was the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with a straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang.
