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LOT 1291
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
19TH CENTURY B.C.-6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 - 4 in. (176 grams total, 3.4-10.2 cm).
Including triangular, leaf-shaped, barbed, paddle-shaped arrowheads with a flat, comparatively wide mid-rib, and others. [26]
Provenance
Ex London art market, 1980-1990s.
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
Cf. for similar arrow-points Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, (plate XLIII, nos.26-27, 92-93); cf. Bavant, B., Ivanišević, V., Caricin Grad IV, Catalogue des objets des fouilles anciennes et autres etudes, Rome-Belgrade, 2019, figs.1687-1688, for similar Eastern Roman arrowheads.
Footnotes
Some of the represented arrowheads (paddle-shaped) were typical of the Old Babylonian Empire. The shoulders were pronounced and the arrowhead had a rectangular-section tapering tang. This simple form was popular throughout and are comparatively common finds in the Holy Land. The collection includes a rare Eastern Roman iron type with triangular blade having rhomboid section and short tang.
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