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LOT 1408

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

3 1/8 - 4 1/8 in. (158 grams total, 8-10.5 cm).

Comprising tanged arrowheads, including barbed and leaf-shaped examples. [9]

Provenance

Acquired 1990s.
From the collection of a late Japanese weaponry collector.

Literature

Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, items 469-471.

Footnotes

The arrowheads seems to belong to the subtypes A and B of the Khorasani classification. They are mainly small triangular arrowheads with rounded and barbed shoulders. Some have angular or rounded midribs. The characteristic is also the cylindrical stem and the rectangular-sectioned tang. Many similar arrowheads were found in the Marlik excavations.

CONDITION

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LOT 1408

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

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