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LOT 1776
Urartian Jasper Bovine Seal Amulet
8TH-7TH CENTURY B.C.
7/8 in. (2.67 grams, 21 mm).
Carved as a reclining bull with erect head, underside engraved with a winged quadruped. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Dr U.O., Zurich, acquired in the 1950s.
with Rhea Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
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Leaf-shaped blade with triangular midrib and a rectangular-section tang. 213 grams, 27.1 cm
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Similar spearheads were excavated in the Marlik Royal cemetery by Dr. Negahban, see for example in tomb 47, Trench XXIIE. They were the evolution of a typology which began much earlier in Mesopotamia and the fertile crescent, the type 4 of the Stronach classification, with a straight tang and square section, usually thickened at the base with a button tang. The foliate blade was wide and exaggerated in some specimens excavated at Marlik. -
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Comprising eleven tanged triangular arrowheads, most with a raised midrib, and a tanged javelin head. 309 grams total, 8-20.7 cm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Most of these blades are bipartite, but the definition of the bipartite type is not absolute, as it brings together weapons of very different and unrelated designs. In fact, some weapons do not have a sufficiently characteristic shape to be interpreted as a javelin or long arrowhead.
