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LOT 1045
Sumerian Stone Bull Amulet
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. OR LATER
2 in. (21.56 grams, 49 mm).
Carved in the half-round, a bull with the legs folded beneath the body and head turned backwards. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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