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LOT 1536
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
13 1/4 in. (285 grams, 33.5 cm).
With broad leaf-shaped blade and tapering square-section tang, flanged neck.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Cf. Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.243, item 279, p.630.
FootnotesThe weapon belongs to type I of the Khorasani classification. Similar weapons have been excavated in Marlilk by Professor Negahban and dated by Stutzinger to the late 13th-early 12th century B.C.
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