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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]
ProvenanceLondon, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. 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.
FootnotesThe 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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LOT 1640
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
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