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LOT 0259
Luristan Bronze Short Sword with Blood Channels
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
20 7/8 in. (558 grams, 53 cm).
Broad two-edged blade, leaf-shaped with short rectangular tang, corrugated midrib extending almost to the tip; rounded shoulders. [No Reserve]
Provenancewith Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983.
Ex private North American collection.
London private collection, 2016.
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat 31, for type.
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