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LOT 1433
Luristan Bronze Tanged Arrowhead
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 1/4 in. (41.6 grams, 13.5 cm).
With broad heater-shaped head and barbs to the rear, square shoulder and narrow tang. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of the vendor's grandfather, thence by family descent, circa 1985.
From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman.
Cf. Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, cat.466, for similar.
FootnotesThe arrowhead resembles a stylised bird's head, according to classification by Khorasani. This was a type of decorative arrowheads, belonging to the typology of barbed arrowheads.
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