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Western Asiatic Luristan Horse Bit with Sphinxes

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Western Asiatic Horse Bit with Horses: 1st millennium BC. A bronze horse bit in the form of a bar with curled ends and with figure of a horse at each end pierced in the body to pass bar through. 227 grams, 16.5cm (6 1/4"). Private collecti

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Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Roaring Lions: 1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with flaring blade decorated with a crouching lion with hooked axe shape coming out of its mouth; blade is attached to the haft by a lion head; haft decorated with

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Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Boar: 13th-6th century BC. A bronze adze with expanding triangular-section blade, tubular socket with rib detailing, figure of a boar to the rear of the socket modelled in the round with hatched bristles an

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Western Asiatic Luristan Weapon Group: 13th-7th century BC. A group of four bronze weapons comprising: a slender spearhead with raised midrib, short pierced tang; a leaf-shaped spearhead with raised midrib, long tubular socket with rivet h

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Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Figures: 2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with tubular socket and rectangular blade, slightly hooked to the underside; projecting section to the back with standing male figure to either side. 310 grams, 13c

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Western Asiatic Luristan Dagger: 13th-6th century BC. A bronze dagger or dirk with parallel-sided blade, broad midrib, lower guard with flange shoulders and grip, T-shaped finial. See Khorasani, M.M. Arms and Armour from Iran. The Br

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Western Asiatic Luristan Dagger: 6th-4th century BC. A bronze dagger comprising a slender lentoid-section willow-leaf blade, hollow grip with socket to each face to accept an insert and lateral flanges to retain it, D-shaped pommel p

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Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead with Wrestlers: 2nd-1st millennium BC. A bronze axehead with leaf-shaped blade with central ridge, socket with small rim to top and bottom; to the side small figures of two men wrestling. 187 grams, 16cm (6 1/4") Pro

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Western Asiatic Luristan Comb Axehead: 2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with tubular socket, ribs extending to spikes to the rear, curved blade with flange to the top and bottom edges. 281 grams, 15.5cm (6") Private collection, North Lo

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Western Asiatic Luristan Decorated Cudgel: 2nd millennium BC. A large tubular bronze cudgel with bands of raised ribs to the shaft, flared handle. Cf. Legrain, L. Luristan Bronzes in the University Museum, Pennsylvania, 1934, item 48. 443 gram

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Western Asiatic Luristan Ceremonial Axehead: 2nd millennium BC. A bronze axehead with crescentic blade, waisted neck with T-shaped extension to the rear. 390 grams, 13cm (5"). Property of a London collector, acquired in the early 1990s.

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Western Asiatic Luristan Cudgel: 1250-650 BC. A bronze cudgel or macehead with flared base, ribbed collar above and plain handle; above three panels with repeating palm frond pattern; ribbed collar to the top. 600 grams, 20.5cm (8").

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Western Asiatic Luristan Long Sword: 2nd millennium BC. A bronze sword blade with leaf-shaped blade and median rib, facetted tang with two attachment holes, remains of linear decoration. 564 grams, 51.5cm (20 1/4"). From a private Austri

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Western Asiatic Luristan Dagger: 10th century BC. A Bronze Age dirk or dagger with lozenge-section narrow blade, flat-section guard, grip with flanged edges to accept an organic insert. 182 grams, 37cm (14 1/2"). From an old English

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Western Asiatic Luristan Axehead: 13th-6th century BC. A bronze axehead with spiked butt, vertical socket with C-shaped rim above and below, slender blade with rounded expanding edge. 318 grams, 15cm (6") Property of a North West Lond

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Western Asiatic Luristan Bell: 13th-6th century BC. A hollow-formed bronze rumbler bell with ribbed exterior, bull-head with bulbous eyes and crescent horns. 36 grams, 43mm (1 3/4"). Property of a Mayfair lady; formerly in an impor

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Western Asiatic Luristan Horse Bit with Sphinxes

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10th-7th centruy BC. A bronze horse bit consisting of a horizontal bar with curled ends onto which is threaded two figures in the form of human-headed horned and winged sphinxes. Cf. Moorey, P.R.S. The Art of Ancient Iran, in Ancient Bronzes, Ceramics and Seals, Los Angeles, 1981, items 150-3; The British Museum, accession number 130677. 368 grams, 18cm (7"). Property of a London gentleman; acquired in the late 1970s and 1980s.