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LOT 1821
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
1000-700 B.C.
2 3/4 - 6 1/2 in. (240 grams total, 7.1-16.5 cm).
Comprising fifteen tanged arrowheads, four with elongated triangular blades and raised midrib, two of squared type with flat tang, three with barbed shoulders and short cylindrical stem with handle for the shaft; two with squared shoulders and rectangular stem with handle for the shaft, one with leafed elongated blade, one with wide triangular head and long handle for the shaft, and other two long and spiked with raised midrib. [15]
ProvenanceLondon, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureFor some of the similar types cf. Mahboubian, H., Art of the Ancient Iran, London, 1997, no.390; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figs. 458-461, 463-467, for some of these types.
FootnotesSome of the arrowheads belong to type V of the Khorasani classification: subtype D (triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib) and subtype C, arrowheads with elongated, triangular shape with barbed shoulders and convex sides, and a raised midrib with a sharp central line.
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