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LOT 0253
Large Luristan Leaf-Shaped Bronze Spearhead
CIRCA 1000-700 B.C.
17 1/4 in. (771 grams total, 44 cm including stand).
Comprising a leaf-shaped blade with a midrib and a long tapering socket; accompanied by a display stand.
Provenancewith Art Ancient, London, UK.
Private collection, London.
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, pp.242-243, and p.632, no.284, for similar; Overlaet, B., ‘Luristan metalwork in the Iron Age’ in Stöllner, T., Slotta, R. & Vatandoust, A. (eds.), Persiens Antike Pracht. Bergbau - Handwerk – Archäologie, Bochum, 2004, pp. 328-338, fig.7, p.335.
FootnotesThe spear, belonging to type 3 of the Khorasani classification, was used by chariot fighters to strike each other or the enemy infantry from above. Similar specimens with longer sockets were excavated by Negahban in the Amlash area. According to Moorey, sockets as long, if not longer than the blade, are a characteristic of Iranian spearheads in the late 2nd and early 1st millennium B.C. A similar spearhead from the Tappeh Sialk has been dated to the 9th-7th century B.C.
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LOT 0253
Large Luristan Leaf-Shaped Bronze Spearhead
Estimate £600 - 800€700 - 930 (for guidance only)$810 - 1,080 (for guidance only)
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Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £1,200
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Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £540
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Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £20
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