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LOT 1577
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
13TH-9TH CENTURY B.C.
3 1/4 - 5 5/8 in. (327 grams total, 8.3-14.4 cm).
Comprising tanged triangular arrowheads, one with barbed shoulders.
ProvenanceLondon, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureSee Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 463 and 467, for the barbed and triangular types.
FootnotesOne series of arrowheads seems to belong to the category of lanceolate head and rounded shoulders from the category Type V, i.e. triangular arrowheads with rounded or angular midrib. Some other arrowheads seem to be a subcategory of subtype A of Khorasani, but longer.
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