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LOT 1660
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/4 - 5 in. (283 grams total, 8.1-12.8 cm).
Comprising leaf-shaped and triangular tanged arrowheads, two with barbed blades.
Provenance
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figs. 467,470, for the barbed types.
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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