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LOT 1174
Amlash Type Bronze Spearhead
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
15 in. (313 grams, 38 cm).
With a long ovate blade and curved shoulders, broad midrib and a rectangular sectioned tang, a reinforced shaft opening to reveal the tang and rounded shoulders.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
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.
Footnotes
The weapon belongs to the type 1 of the spear-head classification of Khorasani, mainly originating from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
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