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LOT 1461
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
CIRCA 14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
1 1/2 - 3 5/8 in. (324 grams total, 37-92 mm).
Including triangular, leaf-shaped, barbed and other types. [35]
Provenance
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 466, for one of the types.
Footnotes
The arrowhead of type IV according to Khorasani classification (arrowheads with jet like wings) is very interesting and rare. Similar arrowheads, often found in the Marlik excavations, looked like a stylised flying bird, such as a swallow. They have rounded terminals of the stretched-out wings. The rib on the blade thickens towards the point.
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