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LOT 0289
Sumerian Stone 'Eye' Idol
3500-3000 B.C.
2 1/4 in. (109 grams, 58 mm).
With a tapering rounded body and two looped eyes at the upper angles.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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.
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