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LOT 1039
Sumerian Terracotta Eye Idol
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 1/2 in. (170 grams, 11.5 cm).
With conical hollow-form body and large looped eyes (one partial).
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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