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LOT 1478
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/8 - 6 1/4 in. (232 grams total, 6.1-16 cm).
Comprising fourteen tanged arraoheads, mostly 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, 471.
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LOT 1478
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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