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LOT 1190

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

12TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

1 3/8 - 3 1/4 in. (105 grams total, 34 - 82 mm).

Comprising seventeen tanged arrowheads, most of them having large elongated triangular blades and raised midrib; one with long tang. [17]

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

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

Footnotes

Most of these arrowhead seem to belong to the type V, subcategory types A and C 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 A and C are small triangular arrowheads with barbed shoulders. The arrowhead with squared shoulders belongs to type III of the same classification.

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LOT 1190

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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