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LOT 1150
Very Large Amlash Bronze Spearhead
12TH-11TH CENTURY B.C.
9 1/2 in. (396 grams, 24.2 cm).
Leaf-shaped blade with raised midrib extending to a square-section shank, flared below with a square-section tang.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1990s.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s. cat 280, for type.
Footnotes
The weapon belongs to the type 1 of the Khorasani spearhead classification, mainly from Marlik or Amlash areas. Similar pieces have been dated by Stutzinger to 1200-1100 B.C.
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