A Luristan bronze spearhead, with long triangular blade and flattened central rib, a long folded socket widening towards the open base -- 22½in. (57cm.) long, early 1st millennium B.C.; and a Graeco-Roman bronze oinochoe handle, grooved along the body, terminating at the base with a mask of a female head -- 8 5/8in. (22cm.) high, 4th-2nd Century B.C. (2)

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A Luristan bronze spearhead, with long triangular blade and flattened central rib, a long folded socket widening towards the open base -- 22½in. (57cm.) long, early 1st millennium B.C.; and a Graeco-Roman bronze oinochoe handle, grooved along the body, terminating at the base with a mask of a female head -- 8 5/8in. (22cm.) high, 4th-2nd Century B.C. (2)

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Item 1: Ashmolean Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the collection of the Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, no. 17.19

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