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LOT 1509
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 - 6 3/4 in. (286 grams total, 6.9-17 cm).
Comprising fifteen tanged arrowheads, some with barbs. [15]
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, 465, 470, 471.
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