Details

LOT 1799

Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection

2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.

3 3 5/8 - 4 7/8 in. (205 grams total, 9.1-12.3 cm).

Comprising tanged arrowheads, seven with large elongated triangular blades and raised midrib, sharp central groove, two with barbed shoulders and cylindrical stem with handle for the shaft. [9]

Provenance

London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Literature

Cf. 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, for some of these types.

Footnotes

These arrowheads seem to belong to the type V, subcategories 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.