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LOT 0892
Luristan Bronze Implement with Antelope Heads
11TH-8TH CENTURY B.C.
6 1/2 in. (88 grams, 16.5 cm).
With a rounded end, the substantial finial formed of three ibex heads with spiralling horns. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK private collection, before 1980.
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The gold lunula was a characteristic type of necklace, collar, or crescent-shaped pendant of the late Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and most often early Bronze Age. The crescent appears in various forms in the material culture of the southern Levant. It also appears in Mesopotamian and Egyptian iconography. It is most frequently associated with the crescent moon and its related deity. Such pendants were worn at the neck, in contact with the body, as protective amulets.
