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LOT 1505
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 5/8 - 6 1/2 in. (273 grams total, 6.7-16.5 cm).
Comprising fourteen tanged arrowheads, mainly barbed types. [14]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. for similar arrowheads Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, nos.441, 463, 467, 470.
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Western Asiatic Bronze Spearhead
9th-7th century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Comprising a leaf-shaped blade with a midrib and a long tapering socket; accompanied by a display stand, repaired. 365 grams total, spearhead: 36.5 cm (38.2 cm including stand)
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
The spear, belonging to type 3 of the Khorasani classification, was used by chariot fighters to strike each other or the enemy infantry from above. Similar specimens with longer sockets were excavated by Negahban in the Amlash area. According to Moorey, sockets as long, if not longer than the blade, are a characteristic of Iranian spearheads in the late 2nd and early 1st millennium B.C. A similar spearhead from the Tappeh Sialk has been dated to the 9th-7th century B.C. -
Luristan Bronze Socketted Axehead
Circa 2200-1600 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Curving blade and a tubular socket with decorative collars. 246 grams, 10 cm
From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Comprising fifteen tanged arrowheads, some with barbs. 286 grams total, 6.9-17 cm
Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.
