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LOT 1124
Luristan Bronze Sword Hilt
2ND MILLENIUM B.C.
6 1/2 in. (492 grams, 16.5 cm).
With crescent-shaped guard to accept blade, square-section grip with central rib to two sides and four evenly-spaced studs to the other two, and a conical hollow-cast mushroom pommel pierced on three sides.
ProvenanceAcquired in the early 1990s.
Ex Guernsey collection.
The Kusmirek Collection, UK.
Cf. Khorasani, M. M., Arms and Armor from Iran: The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, pp.393-4, for type.
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