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LOT 1346
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Point Group
CIRCA 12TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
5 7/8 in. (92 grams total, 15 cm each).
Each with a sturdy square-section tang, broad barbed head with midrib. [3, 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, figure 467, for the main type.
FootnotesTwo of these arrowheads seem 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 with barbed shoulders.
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