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LOT 1386
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
19TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.
1 1/8 - 3 7/8 in. (145 grams total, 30-98 mm).
Comprising tanged arrowheads, most with barbs.
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. 406-408; Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, plate XLIII, nos.26-27, 92-93.
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