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Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
CIRCA 1800-900 B.C.
1 5/8 - 4 3/4 in. (353 grams total, 4-12 cm).
Including triangular-section, barbed, paddle-shaped, and other types. [35]
PROVENANCE:
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LITERATURE:
See Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff., for similar arrowheads; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, fig.467, for the barbed and triangular type.
FOOTNOTES:
Paddle-shaped arrowheads with a flat, comparatively wide mid-rib and the blade shaped to a point were typical of Old Babylonian Empire. The shoulders were pronounced and the arrowhead had a rectangular-section tapering tang. They are the majority in this group, which comprises also barbed triangular arrowheads of type V from Marlik-Luristan, and one interesting specimen of trilobate arrowhead.
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