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LOT 1061
Luristan Sword Blade with Blood Channels
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
16 1/4 in. (422 grams, 41.5 cm).
A substantial bronze leaf-shaped blade with raised midrib extending to a short tang, ribbed fullers with curved ends extending to the shoulders.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1990s.
With a London, UK, gallery.
Property of a London collector; from her family's private collection.
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s. cat 31, for type.
FootnotesThe metalworking techniques used in making bronze weapons in Luristan were very complex. Surfaces were often finished in repoussé work, and some of the weapons were chased, others engraved.
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