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Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
CIRCA LATE 2ND MILLENNIUM-6TH CENTURY B.C.
1 5/8 - 4 1/4 in. (280 grams total, 4.1-10.8 mm).
Comprising heater-shaped, leaf-shaped, barbed-and-tanged, and other types.
PROVENANCE:
Acquired 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.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff, for similar; see also Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, nos.467, 471, for some of the represented types.
FOOTNOTES:
A number of arrowheads of this type have been excavated in Luristan and in the South-Caspian region. Many parallels are from a burial context, but a large hoard of them was found in a non-funerary context. This type of arrowhead was in use from the late 2nd millennium B.C.
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