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LOT 1437
Luristan Bronze Short Sword
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER
21 3/8 in. (878 grams, 54.2 cm).
With tapering, double-edged triangular blade and central midrib; crescent-shaped, tri-lobed guard at the shoulder; restored decorated cylindrical hilt with domed stone pommel. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a North West London collection; previously acquired in the 1980s.
Literature
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006.
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