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LOT 1368
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
CIRCA 14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
3 3/4 - 6 1/8 in. (450 grams total, 9.5-15.5 cm).
Including triangular, leaf-shaped, barbed and other types. [18]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figs. 463, 467 and 469, for the type.
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