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LOT 1004
Western Asiatic Terracotta Figural Plaque
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
4 in. (98 grams total, 10.1 cm including stand).
A roughly rectangular plaque showing the upper body of a man holding a three-pronged object in his left hand, fronted by a striated low wall (a chariot?) with a large three-toed bird's claw at the front, two mounting holes to the centre; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
with Galerie Rhéa, Zurich, Switzerland.
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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