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LOT 1362

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection

CIRCA 13TH-9TH CENTURY B.C.

4 - 6 1/2 in. (446 grams total, 10-16.5 cm).

Including triangular, leaf-shaped, barbed and other types. [18]

Provenance

Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Literature

See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 463 and 467, for the barbed and triangular types.

Footnotes

One series of arrowheads seem to belong to the category of lanceolate head and rounded shoulders from the category Type V, i.e. triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib. Some other arrowheads seem to be a subcategory of subtype A of Khorasani but longer.

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LOT 1362

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection

Sold for (Inc. bp): £312

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