Details

LOT 1378

Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group

13TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.

2 1/2 - 5 3/8 in. (182 grams total, 64-13.5 cm).

Comprising tanged arrowheads of leaf-shaped and barbed types, most with midribs. [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 different in shape, these arrowheads are apparently related types of a polythetic group. There are represented two basic deltoid forms: 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, the blade narrow and leaf shaped.