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LOT 1335
Luristan Bronze Pin Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/2 - 18 3/8 in. (714 grams total, 14.1-41.7 cm).
Comprising: six specimens with a tapering round-section shank, balustered finial topped with a conical head, fastening holes; four specimens with tapering round section, poppy-shaped head and flared collar beneath. [11, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Muscarella, O. W., Bronze and Iron: Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, items 35-39, 208, 290-291, for the types.
FootnotesAccording to the study of Moorey, the knobbed pins from Iran are documented from the earliest periods of metallurgy, increasing in quantity during the late 2nd millennium, to reach the peak of the production from the early 1st millennium. Pins were used as hair and clothing fasteners, but it is not excluded that they could have been used by women as personal means of defence in dangerous situations.
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