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Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 - 5 in. (140 grams total, 8.3-12.5 cm).
Comprising: five large elongated triangular arrowheads with raised midrib, sharp central groove, cylindrical stem, barbed shoulders and convex sides; two large tanged arrowheads, one of triangular type with mid-rib, the other with rounded shoulders. [7]
PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the 1990s.
Ex Abelita family collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figs.376 and 467, for the barbed type.
FOOTNOTES:
One of the categories of arrowheads coming from Marlik shows a large triangular blade with barbed shoulders, and has been ascribed by Negahban to the subtype C of the type V of Luristan or North Persian arrowheads.
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