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LOT 1343

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection

12TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

2 - 4 1/4 in. (266 grams total, 49-108 mm).

Including triangular, barbed-and-tanged, leaf-shaped, and other types. [20]

Provenance

Ex London art market, 1980-1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 463, 467, and 471, for some of the types.

Footnotes

Some of these arrowheads seem to belong to the type V, subcategory types A, C and D according to the classification of Khorasani and Negahban. In the four categories of triangular bronze arrowheads from Luristan, Marlik and Northern Iran individuated by Negahban, subtypes C and D of type V are larger arrow or javelin heads, C with barbed shoulders and D with round shoulders. Subtype A is substantially similar to C, but smaller.

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LOT 1343

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection

Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)

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