Luristan Decorated Bronze Spearhead

13TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.

8 1/2 in. (147 grams, 21.5 cm).

With broad leaf-shaped blade and tapering square-section tang, ribbed neck.

Provenance

From the private collection of Mr K.A., acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s.

Literature

Cf. Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, pp.242-243.

CONDITION

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LOT 1396