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LOT 1257
Luristan Bronze Arrowhead Collection
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
5 - 7 1/4 in. (157 grams total, 12.7-18.5 cm).
Mainly triangular-headed barbed and tanged type with thick midrib. [5]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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Western Asiatic Terracotta Bowl with Handle
1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Bulbous body with rounded base, flattened rim with a small strap handle to the side. 320 grams, 13.3 cm wide
with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland. -
South Arabian Alabaster Head of a Woman
3rd-1st century B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £585
Modelled with an angular nose with straight ridge, small mouth with raised lips, rounded cheeks and chin, shallow eyes with grooved outlines, shallow ears, short neck, the back and the top of the head left roughly tooled; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 3.3 kg total, 24.3 cm high including stand
UK collection, 1990s. Acquired on the UK art market, before 2000. Private collection, Mr M.V., a London-based businessman.
This finely carved calcite-alabaster head was probably unfinished, as can be seen from the absence of the holes for the inlay of the eyes and the unfinished ears. In the Arabian funerary sculptures of the period, the tops of the heads are usually cut off flat just above the hair line and left roughly tooled. The cut was due to the necessity of fitting them into niches of 'house shrines'. Large stelae with niches containing such heads were found in the Timna Cemetery. -
Babylonian Bronze Pazuzu Head Pendant
700-600 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Formed in the round bust of Pazuzu with disc base and loop. 4.45 grams, 19.7 mm
From a collection of a late London, UK, collector, 1980s. 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.
