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LOT 1068
Luristan Arrowhead Group
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 3/4 - 4 1/4 in. (52 grams total, 4.3-10.9 cm).
A group of six bronze arrowheads with deltoid form, a sharp barbed blade and prominent midrib extending to a long tang. [6]
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff., for similar, nos.408, 409, 416.
Footnotes
A number of arrowheads of this type have been excavated from the Northern Iranian Plateau, in Luristan and in the South-Caspian region. Many parallels have a burial provenance, but a large hoard of them was found in a non-funerary context. This type of arrowhead has been in use from the 2nd millennium B.C. Godard claimed that barbed types of heads came from tombs from Luristan, like the ones found in Tang-i-Hamamlan.
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