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LOT 1449
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
CIRCA 1000 B.C.
3 1/8 - 4 3/8 in. (84 grams total, 8-11.2 cm).
Each with an elongated, triangular shape with barbed shoulders, raised midrib and quadrangular spiked tang. [6, No Reserve]
Provenance
UK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
Literature
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 454 and 455, p.741, for the type.
Footnotes
This type of arrowhead came in different varieties and sizes: some of them have barbed shoulders, some rounded shoulders, but both the types had a raised midrib.
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