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LOT 1119
Luristan Bronze Spearhead Blade
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 in. (254 grams, 33 cm).
With a short tang and long blade, raised midrib, a rivet to the base.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
See Negahban, E., Weapons from Marlik, Berlin, 1995, plate IX, no.117; Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, item 283, for type.
Footnotes
The spearhead belongs to type 2 according to the classification of Khorasani. A similar specimen was excavated by Negahban in Marlik.
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