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LOT 1356
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Group
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 5/8 - 4 1/2 in. (247 grams total, 4.3-11.4 cm).
Comprising triangular types with thick midrib, heater-shaped, leaf-shaped, barbed-and-tanged, and other types. [30]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, cat.466, for one of the represented types.
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