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LOT 1106
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/2 - 6 in. (325 grams total, 8.8-15.3 cm).
Comprising: a group of large tanged arrowheads, mainly of triangular type with mid-rib; one barbed example; four foliate blades and a single arrowhead with double points with stem and tang. [15, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the London art market, 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.
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; see also Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 441 and 465, for the barbed and double point types.
FootnotesThe most interesting specimen of the group is certainly the double-pointed arrowhead, belonging to the type II of Khorasani's classification. These arrowheads were made in cast bronze with a double point with stem and tang, located one above the other and positioned at right angles to each other (see also Muscarella, 1988, figs.411 and 418).
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