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LOT 1534
Anatolian Black Stone Idol
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 in. (156 grams, 10.1 cm).
Carved in the half-round with hatched detailing to the tunic and belt, discoid head with reserved annulet eyes and trapezoidal nose, and lateral stub ears.
ProvenanceEx Swiss collection, 1980s.
Private collection, 1994.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.12874-241677.
Cf. for a similar idol Atakuman, Ç., ‘Figurines of the Anatolian Early Bronze Age: The assemblage from Koçumbeli-Ankara’ in Anatolian Studies, 67, Ankara, 2017, pp.85-108, fig.5.
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