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LOT 0270
Tell Burqas Stone Bowl
6TH-5TH MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/2 in. (574 grams, 90 mm).
Squat hollow container with low rim to the broad mouth.
ProvenanceAcquired in 1997.
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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