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LOT 1288
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 - 7 3/8 in. (330 grams total, 7.8-18.7 cm).
Comprising fourteen tanged arrowheads, including some with barbs. [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, 398-400, 407, 416; Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, nos.441, 463, 467.
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