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LOT 1435
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group
CIRCA 14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
6 1/8 - 6 1/4 in. (98 grams total, 15.5-16 cm).
Each with a sturdy square-section tang, narrow barbed head with midrib. [33, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 467 and 470, for the type.
FootnotesThese arrowheads seem to belong to the type V, subcategory types A and 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 A and C of type V are larger arrow heads with barbed shoulders and triangular heads. These types of arrowheads were commonly used in Anatolia and Mesopotamia from the 2nd millennium B.C., but apparently their employment began earlier in this area, where types like these occur alongside the non-barbed, predominantly ribbed and tanged types.
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