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LOT 1477
Amlash Type Bronze Spearhead
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
14 3/8 in. (300 grams, 36.5cm).
Leaf-shaped blade and rectangular-section shank developing from the raised midrib, flared below with a rectangular-section tang.
ProvenanceEx London art market, 1980-1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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 spear-head classification of Khorasani, mainly from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
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