Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection

11TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

2 1/4 - 3 1/2 in. (103 grams total, 58-88 mm).

Comprising ten tanged arrowheads, most with barbed shoulders. [10]

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, fig.466, for arrowheads with jet-like wings.

Footnotes

The majority of the arrowheads belong to type IV of the Khorasani classification. They look like a stylised flying bird, such as a swallow.

CONDITION

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