Lot Essay
Cf. Avant les Scythes: préhistoire de l'art en U.R.S.S, Paris, 1979, pp. 86 and 94-95, nos. 65-67, col. pl. on p. 8 for similar figures from Altyn-dépé, South Turkestan.
LATE 3RD/EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
Details
A Turkmanian terracotta seated female idol
Late 3rd/early 2nd millennium B.C.
With prominent slit eyes, wearing long 'ringlets' and plait at the back, the steatopygous body with incised hatching on the front and back and dotted pudenda, with short folded legs in front
6¾in. (17.1cm.) high
Late 3rd/early 2nd millennium B.C.
With prominent slit eyes, wearing long 'ringlets' and plait at the back, the steatopygous body with incised hatching on the front and back and dotted pudenda, with short folded legs in front
6¾in. (17.1cm.) high