Details

LOT 1432

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

13TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.

3 - 5 3/8 in. (220 grams total, 7.5-13.6 cm).

Mainly tanged examples of barbed and leaf-shaped types. [10]

Provenance

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

Literature

See Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,1988, pp.289ff. nos.396,398-400,410,416, for similar arrowheads; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, items 449, 467, for types.

Footnotes

Although some of them are different in shape, these arrowheads are apparently related types of a polythetic group. Two basic deltoid forms are represented: one has a sharp, flat blade, the ends of which extend to form wings or barbs, and a prominent midrib extending into a long tang that often has a stop; the blade shape varies from deltoid to more manifestly triangular. The other form has no barbs, but it has a prominent midrib extending to the tang, and a narrow leaf-shaped blade.