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LOT 1121
Elamite Bronze Statuette of a Priest
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/4 in. (46 grams, 10.7 cm).
Columnar in form with pinched facial features, bisected headdress, horns to the collar and belt to the waist, arms bent and raised with fingers hooked to hold implements.
Provenance
From an important North London collection formed before 1980.
From a private collection of an Exeter gentleman since 2015.
Literature
Cf. Aruz, J., Art of the First Cities. The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, item 82, for similar.
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