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LOT 1401
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
CIRCA 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.-9TH CENTURY B.C.
4 - 6 7/8 in. (446 grams total, 10-17.5 cm).
Including triangular, leaf-shaped, barbed, square-section, and other types. [18]
Provenance
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Literature
See Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff, for similar arrowheads.
Footnotes
It is significant to remember that the use of winged and barbed heads in Anatolia was common since the second millennium B.C., but apparently their employment began earlier in this area, where types like these occur alongside the non-barbed, predominantly ribbed and tanged types.
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