Luristan Bronze Socketted Spearhead

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

8 7/8 in. (136 grams, 22.6 cm).

Comprising a leaf-shaped blade with a raised midrib extending to a tubular socket with four raised circumferential ribs. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired on the UK art market since the 1960s.
From the private collection of Mr J.P.H., a Woolwich, UK, collector, his collection formed since the 1960s.

Literature

Cf. Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg (2003) in Russian, pl. XXXV, no.21, for the type.

CONDITION

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