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LOT 1147
Amlash Type Bronze Spearhead
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
12 3/8 in. (223 grams, 31.5 cm).
With heavily ridged and tapered leaf-shaped blade, long slightly flared grooved neck and square-section tapered tang. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
See 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.
FootnotesThe weapon belongs to the type 1 of the spearhead classification of Khorasani, mainly coming from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
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