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LOT 1276
Luristan Bronze Decorated Spearhead
1200-1100 B.C.
13 5/8 in. (267 grams, 34.5 cm).
With ovate blade, central rib and curved shoulders, the lozenge-section long shaft with edge chanel decoration tapering towards the end, rectangular tang with bent tip.
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. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 291, p.636.
Footnotes
The spearhead represents a slender variant of type 1 of Khorasani classification. The type 1 was characterised by the bent tang. It was 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.
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LOT 1276
Luristan Bronze Decorated Spearhead
Estimate £180 - 240€210 - 280 (for guidance only)$240 - 320 (for guidance only)
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