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Estimate
GBP (£) 600 - 800
EUR (€) 690 - 930
USD ($) 800 - 1,070
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
18 1/4 in. (844 grams, 46.2 cm).
The leaf-shaped ovate blade with rounded, gently curved shoulders and raised midrib, flat rectangular-sectioned tang tapering to a sharply bent end with a fastening button.
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.270, for type.
FOOTNOTES:
Similar spearheads were excavated in the Marlik Royal cemetery by Dr Negahban, see for example in tomb 47, Trench XXIIE. They were the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. The foliate blade was wide and exaggerated in some specimens excavated at Marlik.
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