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LOT 1022
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 3/8 in. (243 grams, 34 cm).
Leaf-shaped blade with a raised midrib, rectangular-section tang bent to a right-angle with a knop to the end.
Provenance
Ex London art market, 1980-1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron, ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, no.176, for the type.
Footnotes
A number of similar blades, some considered to be spearheads and others to be daggers, all with bent tang, derived from Tepe Hissar Culture III. Some of them, like our specimen, have a button terminal, some others have a plain, pointed terminal. The general dating of these specimens is fixed to the early 2nd millennium B.C.
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