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LOT 1640
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.
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