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LOT 1655
Stone Age Arrowhead Group
NEOLITHIC, 8TH-4TH MILLENNIUM BC
1/2 - 1 in. (23 grams total, 14-28mm).
A group of thirty barbed Neolithic light tan chert arrowheads. [30, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the Petra Berhout collection; previously in a 1930s Dutch collection.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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