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LOT 1079
Amlash Type Bronze Spearhead
13TH-12TH CENTURY B.C.
16 in. (411 grams, 40.5 cm).
Showing a long tapering blade with rounded shoulders and prominent mid-rib, the tang straight and rectangular in section.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat 280, for type; Christies, Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 2, London, South Kensington, 28th April 2004, lot 40.
FootnotesThe weapon belongs to the type 1 of the Khorasani spearhead classification, mainly from the Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C., but the period of use is attested to at least until 1000 B.C.
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