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LOT 1153
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
13TH-9TH CENTURY B.C.
3 3/4 - 6 1/4 in. (225 grams total, 94 - 158 mm).
Comprising large triangular and leaf-shaped types with one barbed example. [10]
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 and 467, for the barbed and triangular types.
Footnotes
One series of arrowheads seem to belong to the category of lanceolate head and rounded shoulders from the category Type V, i.e. triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib. Some other arrowheads seem to be a subcategory of subtype A of Khorasani but longer.
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