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LOT 1526
Luristan Bronze Spearhead
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
16 5/8 in. (331 grams, 42.3 cm).
Triangular in profile with rounded shoulders and thick square-section mid-rib running to the tip; short flared neck and square-section tang.
ProvenanceEx Abelita family collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. 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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