2nd-1st millennium B.C.. With broad heater-shaped head and barbs to the rear, square shoulder and narrow tang. Cf. Khorasani M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, cat.466, for similar. 41.6 grams, 13.5 cm (5 1/4 in.).

The arrowhead resembles a stylised bird's head, according to classification by Khorasani. This was a type of decorative arrowheads, belonging to the typology of barbed arrowheads.

Property of the vendor's grandfather, thence by family descent, circa 1985. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman. [No Reserve]