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LOT 1452

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

13TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.

4 3/4 - 6 in. (200 grams total, 12-15.3 cm).

Comprising mainly tanged arrowheads including various types of leaf-shaped heads with midribs. [6]

Provenance

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

Literature

See for similar arrowheads Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff. nos.398, 403; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, items 449,467, for some of the types represented here.

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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LOT 1452

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £156

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