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LOT 1981
Western Asiatic Bronze Dagger
1800-1600 B.C.
11 1/2 in. (174 grams, 29.2 cm).
The blade expanding towards the shoulders, a pierced rectangular-section tang.
ProvenanceEx Abelita family collection, 1990s.
LiteratureCf. for the type Gorelik, M., Weapons of Ancient East, IV millennium BC-IV century BC, Saint Petersburg, 2003, in Russian, see pl.IV, no.40, from Western Iran.
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LOT 1981
Western Asiatic Bronze Dagger
Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£83 (EUR 97; USD 112) +BP*
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Indo-Persian Decorated Iron Shield Boss
Circa 13th-14th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Slightly domed disc with attachment holes at the rim; incised border of reserved scrolled tendrils on a pounced field. 95 grams, 16.5 cm wide
Acquired on the UK art market. From a gentleman's collection from East Sussex, UK. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £55
Including barbed-and-tanged, leaf-shaped, triangular and other types. 242 grams total, 6-16.6 cm
Ex Abelita collection, 1980s-2010. -
Bactrian Bronze Axehead
3rd-2nd millennium B.C.Estimate: £250 - 350 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £138
With curved flaring cutting edge, characteristic curving shape and narrow socket, blade end squaring off, shaft hole pierced on both sides. 227 grams, 10.6 cm
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
These collared axes have the specific feature of being equipped with variously shaped rear extensions. The provenance of this typology is clearer than others: these axes came from Margiana and southern Bactria. Gonur Depe and Susa yielded a rather atypical and probably imported example. P. Amiet suggests that they were an adoption of Elamite material, from conceptual and institutional models. They would have developed from the end of the 3rd and the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C.
