Luristan Bronze Spearhead

EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

16 5/8 in. (643 grams, 42.2 cm).

Foliate blade with a central rib and slender shoulders, short rectangular shaft and tang with a bent finial. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.

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 a bent tang, derived from Tepe Hissar Culture III. Some of them, like our specimen, have a button terminal, and some others have a plain, pointed terminal. The general dating of these specimens is fixed to the early 2nd millennium B.C.

CONDITION

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