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LOT 0278

Nabataean Bronze Female Statuette

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.

1 7/8 in. (28 grams, 47 mm).

Standing on a tiered base with loosely draped palla gathered across her body and held in the let hand at the waist, right hand raised to her hair.

Provenance

From a private collection formed in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.

Literature

Cf. Mahdi Alzoubi, Eyad al Masri and Fardous al Ajlouny, Woman in the Nabatean Society, Zarqa, 2012, fig. 3.

CONDITION

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LOT 0278

Nabataean Bronze Female Statuette

Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)

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