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LOT 0115
Large Phoenician Terracotta Head of a Man
LEVANT, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
10 7/8 in. (1.73 kg, 27.5 cm).
Hollow-formed moulded head with conical cap, band above the brow with curls beneath, high-relief eyebrows and triangular nose, scaphoid protrusive eyes, tiny pursed mouth; collar to the neck with frontal pendant; ellipsoid vent to rear, flared rim to mouth; some loss to lateral edges at ear-level.
Provenancewith Phillips, London, 6 July 1993, no.127 (part).
Private collection, London, UK.
Acquired in London, UK, 2006.
Accompanied by copies of the original Phillips and 2006 invoices.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13281-254405.
See Schreiber, N., The Cypro-Phoenician Pottery of the Iron Age, Brill, 2002, for discussion.
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