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LOT 1539
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 - 6 3/4 in. (260 grams total, 5-17 cm).
Comprising fourteen tanged arrowheads, mainly barbed and leaf-shaped types. [14]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. for similar arrowheads Muscarella, O.W., Bronze and Iron Ancient Near Eastern Artifacts in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988, pp.289ff, nos. 396,407; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, nos. 467,470.
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