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LOT 1538
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 1/2 - 5 3/8 in. (305 grams total, 6.5-13.6 cm).
Comprising tanged arrowheads, four with large elongated triangular blades and raised midrib, sharp central groove, three with barbed shoulders and cylindrical stem with handle for the shaft; three with barbed shoulders and convex on sides, one elongated triangular type with barbed shoulders and flat socket, one with trilobate blade and another with short tang and barbed blade with raised midrib. [13]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Mahboubian, H., Art of the Ancient Iran, London, 1997, no.390, for some similar arrowheads; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 463, 467, 469-471, for some of these types.
FootnotesThese arrowheads seem to belong to the type V, subcategory types A, B, C and D according to the classification of Khorasani and Negahban. In the four categories of triangular bronze arrowheads from Luristan, Marlik, and Northern Iran, individuated by Negahban, subtypes C and D of type V are larger arrow or javelin heads, C with barbed shoulders and D with round shoulders. Most of them were cast in moulds.
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