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LOT 0936
Elamite Silver Female Idol Pendant
3RD-2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 in. (48 grams, 12.7 cm).
Composed of bifurcated body with each arm tapering to a coiled terminal, splayed head with suspension loop, decorative diagonal grooves around the perimeter and to the centre.
Provenance
London collection since the 1980s.
Property of a Canadian family.
Literature
Cf. Bilgi, O., Anthropomorphic Representations in Anatolia Before The Classical Age. Volume 1, Istanbul, 2014, figs.398, 778, 781 and 782, for similar; cf. Maxwell-Hyslop, K.R., Western Asiatic Jewellery c.3000-612 BC, London, 1971, fig.36, for a similar type.
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