2nd-1st millennium BC. A two-edged bronze sword blade, leaf-shaped with short rectangular tang, corrugated midrib extending almost to the tip and flared at the shoulder. See Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran. The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tübingen, 2006, s.cat 31, for type. 296 grams, 35cm (13 3/4"). Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher; formerly with a London gallery; previously acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. The metalworking techniques used in making bronze weapons in Luristan were very complex. Surfaces were often finished in repoussé work, and some of the weapons were chased, others engraved. The ruling elites of warrior horsemen were buried in the graves with their weapons and horses which are the main sources of the Luristan bronze weapons. [No Reserve] Condition Report Fine condition.