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LOT 1085

Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Group

14TH-10TH CENTURY B.C.

3 1/8 - 5 7/8 in. (203 grams total, 8.1-15 cm).

Comprising ten triangular arrowheads with tangs. [10]

Provenance

Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.

Literature

See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, figures 467 and 470, for some of these types.

Footnotes

Some of these arrowheads seem to belong to the type V, subcategory types A and C according to the classification of Khorasani and Negahban. In the four categories of triangular bronze arrowheads from Luristan, Marlik and Northern Iran described by Negahban, subtypes A and C of type V are larger arrow heads with barbed shoulders and triangular heads. These types of arrowheads were commonly used in Anatolia and Mesopotamia from the 2nd millennium B.C., but apparently their employment began earlier in this area, where types like these occur alongside the non-barbed, predominantly ribbed and tanged types.

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LOT 1085

Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Group

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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