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LOT 1150
Luristan Arrowhead Collection
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 - 4 7/8 in. (70 grams total, 9.1-12.4 cm).
Comprising leaf-shaped and triangular, tanged and barbed arrowheads. [4]
Provenance
English private collection, acquired 1970s.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK.
Literature
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tuebingen, 2006, cat.454, 455, 463.
Footnotes
The arrowheads correspond to the classification of the arrowheads with elongated triangular shape with barbed shoulders and lanceolate head with rounded shoulders from the category type V, according to the studies of Khorasani and the excavations in Negahban.
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