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LOT 0834
Trans-Jordan Alabaster Astarte Figure
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/8 in. (36.1 grams, 79 mm high).
Carved in the round with semi-naturalistic features, standing nude with her hands clasped together below her bust, hair dressed on top and flowing down her back.
ProvenanceFrom an important collection formed pre 1988, Geneva and London, by descent.
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Tel Brak Type Alabaster Eye Idol
Circa 3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
Anthropomorphic eye idol, possibly of figurative female form, carved with a bell-shaped body, two 'breasts', remains of openwork 'eyes' above. 33.5 grams, 43 mm
Acquired 1969-1999. London collection of the late Mr S.M., thence by descent.
A classic artefact type from ancient Mesopotamia. Likely hand-carved using drills and string cutting. Eye idols were so named in the 1930s by the British archaeologist Max Mallowan. Whilst excavating a mound called Tel Brak, he discovered hundreds of anthropomorphic items of similar form, thus naming the mound 'Temple of the Eyes'. -
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Western Asiatic Geometric Terracotta Jar
2nd-1st millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Spherical bodied with painted frieze of concentric roundels to the body. 282 grams, 13 cm high
London, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Stone Bead Necklace
1st millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Composed of graduated, mainly cream-coloured agate, quartz and shell beads of various types, including spherical, coin-shaped, oblate and other types; restrung. 19.3 grams, 61 cm long
Ex W.J. collection, 1990s.
