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LOT 1244
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 3/4 - 4 1/8 in. (51 grams total, 9.7-10.5 cm).
Comprising: three large triangular arrowheads with barbed shoulders and rounded midrib. [3]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1990s.
Ex Abelita family collection.
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.
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figure 467, for the type.
FootnotesThe arrowheads belong to the type V of the Khorasani classification: subtype C, arrowheads with elongated, triangular shape with barbed shoulders and convex sides, and a raised midrib with a sharp central line. These types of arrowheads were commonly used in Anatolia and Mesopotamia from the 2nd 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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