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LOT 1109

Sold for (Inc. bp): £104

ASSYRIAN BRONZE AMULET IN THE SHAPE OF HUMBABA
CIRCA 800 B.C.
7/8 in. (2.2 grams, 22 mm).

Modelled in the round with hands clasped across the midriff and legs astride, arms forming loops.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. similar pendant (head only) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession no.1993.181.

CONDITION
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