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LOT 1429
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group
12TH-9TH CENTURY B.C.
4 3/4 - 7 in. (216 grams total, 12.2 - 18 cm).
Comprising arrowheads of various types, mainly leaf-shaped and barbed types, with midribs. [6]
Provenance
Acquired 1990s.
From the collection of a late Japanese weaponry collector.
Literature
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 376, 379, and catalogue 467, for some of the represented types.
Footnotes
The barbed arrowhead seems to belong to the type V, subcategory type 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 C and D of type V are larger arrow or javelin heads, C large triangular arrowheads with barbed shoulders and D with lanceolate shape and rounded midrib. The straight shoulders recalls a Marlik typology (see Khorasani, 2006, p.307, fig.379).
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