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LOT 1434
Western Asiatic Bone Pazuzu Amulet
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 in. (5.10 grams, 25 mm).
Carved in the round grotesque head with angled snout, triangular eyes, ribbed upper head, frontally-placed ears; possibly Pazuzu.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Literature
Cf. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, catalog number YPM BC 017054, for similar.
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