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LOT 1366

Babylonian Terracotta Relief with Astarte

2ND MILLENNIUM B.C. AND LATER

5 3/8 in. (350 grams, 13.5 cm).

Fragment with applied vertical female figure supporting her breasts in her hands, flanked by incised lateral wing motifs, a marriage.

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.

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LOT 1366

Babylonian Terracotta Relief with Astarte

Sold for (Inc. bp): £494

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