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LOT 0255
Heavy Western Asiatic Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
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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LOT 0255
Heavy Western Asiatic Leaf-Shaped Spearhead
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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