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LOT 1343
Luristan Bronze Dagger Blade
12TH CENTURY B.C.
12 3/8 in. (131 grams, 31.5 cm).
With lentoid-section blade, tongue-shaped in plan with integral tapering hilt with flared finial, lateral flanges to accept a panel of bone or wood to each face forming the grip.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.377, cat.6, for the type (IIIa bronze dirk).
Footnotes
The art of Luristan can be described as the art of nomadic herdsmen and horsemen with an emphasis on the crafting of small, easily portable objects, among these a great number of bronze weapons. The rich and noble aristocrats of the Luristan, Elamites, Hurrians, Lullubians, Kutians, and Kassites, went to battle splendidly equipped and wore magnificent bronze armour, using maces, spears and daggers as offensive weapons, alongside spears, bows and arrows.
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