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LOT 1518
Large Luristan Bronze Spearhead
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
16 1/2 in. (464 grams, 42 cm).
Triangular in profile with rounded shoulders and square-section mid-rib running to the tip; short flared neck and square-section tang.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1990s.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.628, no.275, for type.
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