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LOT 1053
Luristan Arrowhead Collection
13TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
5 5/8 - 6 1/4 in. (118 grams total, 14.2-16 cm).
A group of four bronze arrowheads comprising: two triangular with thick midrib; one barbed and tanged; one leaf-shaped. [4]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
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Babylonian Bronze Axehead
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
A bronze duck-billed shaft-hole axe head featuring a curved, beak-shaped blade with two pierced eyes and a raised median ridge. 204 grams, 10.5 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998. -
Volga-Ural Nomad Sabre
9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £381
An iron single-edged sabre with slightly curving blade showing battle nicks, evidence of a possible iron extension together with a tongue to the side of the blade, beneath the straight guard. 725 grams, 89 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1971-1972. From the collection of the vendor's father. Property of a London, UK, collector. Accompanied by an academic report by military specialist Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Various sabres of similar typology were found in a complex of medieval nomad weapons in archaeological excavations in the steppe and forest-steppe zone of the Volga-Ural region; chronologically, they were dated to the 9th-11th centuries. -
Amlash Type Spearhead
13th-11th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
A bronze tanged spearhead with heavily ridged and tapered blade with short collared shaft and square section tapered tang of recangular section. 436 grams, 40 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection.
The weapon belongs to the type 1 of the spearhead classification by Khorasani, mainly from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
