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LOT 1436
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
14 1/8 in. (262 grams, 36 cm).
With lentoid-section blade, median rib and curved shoulders, tapering towards the end, rectangular stub tang. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEnglish private collection, late 1970s-early 1980s.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, p.628, no.275, for type.
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