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LOT 1552
Luristan Bronze Blade Group
14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
7 3/8 - 10 5/8 in. (342 grams total, 18.7-27 cm).
Tanged spearheads with foliate blades, one with accentuated midrib and bent tang, another with squared shoulders and bent tang, the third with slender blade and narrow tang with fastening hole. [3]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat.270, 273 and 275, for the typologies of these spearheads.
FootnotesSpearheads with large foliate blades and bent tangs were excavated in the Marlik Royal cemetery by Dr Negahban, see for example in tomb 47, Trench XXIIE. They were the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. The foliate blade was wide and exaggerated in some specimens excavated at Marlik.
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Marlik Bronze Spearhead
14th-10th century B.C.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
With rounded shoulders and square-section mid-rib running to the tip; short tang. 280 grams, 38.5 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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Luristan Bronze Spear Point
13th-6th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Comprising a broad leaf-shaped blade with rounded shoulders, raised midrib extending to a tubular socket with tapering rectangular-section extension. 43.2 grams, 14.8 cm
Acquired 1980-2015. Ex Abelita family collection. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
