CIRCA LATE 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.

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TWO PERSIAN BRONZE SPEAR-HEADS
CIRCA LATE 9TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
One with long triangular blade with pronounced triangular midrib flanked by grooves, decorated with incised notches and hatched triangles near the shoulder, the folded cylindrical socket decorated with ribs and bands of notches and zigzags below, horizontal ribs and two rivet holes above, 21 1/8 in. (53.7 cm.) long; the other bronze spear-head, similar, with hatched triangles flanking the midrib, encircling ribs on the upper socket, 16 7/8 in. (42.8 cm.) long; a North-West Persian bronze sword with ribbed 'ear' pommel, square-sectioned grip and long tapering blade, circa 10th-9th Century B.C., 25 1/8 in. (63.8 cm.) long; and a square-sectioned bronze spear butt, tapering to a point, with double row of four studs above, the cylindrical pierced socket with encircling grooves and another four studs, early 1st millennium B.C., 11 in. (28 cm.) long (4)

Provenance

Sold Christie's London, 12 April 2000, lot 250.

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Lot Essay

Items one and two: cf. P. R. S. Moorey, Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, pp. 90-91, nos. 88-89, pl. 9 for the type.

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