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LOT 1029
Luristan Bronze Splayed Spear Blade
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
13 3/4 in. (112 grams, 35 cm).
Double-edged blade widening at the tip and forming two points at the tip, short rectangular-section tang.
ProvenanceEx 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.
Cf. Sharifi, M., ‘The Middle Bronze Age in the Little Zab Basin in the Light of the Excavations at Barde Zard Tepe, Northwest Iran’ in Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies’,2018, pp.39-56, fig.11, for similar but not identical tools.
FootnotesThis blade was probably for a short sword or dagger, which was transformed into a working tool.
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