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CIRCA 8TH CENTURY B.C.
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A SYRO-PHOENICIAN BONE FEMALE HEAD
CIRCA 8TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing beaded disc earrings, with pierced eyes and recessed brows, cut away at back of head, mounted
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) high
CIRCA 8TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing beaded disc earrings, with pierced eyes and recessed brows, cut away at back of head, mounted
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Henri Seyrig (1895-1973) collection: sold H. A. Cahn, Kunstwerke der Antike, Auktion 4, Basel, 1992, no. 17.
Henri Seyrig, numismatist, archaeologist and French historian of antiquity was actively and passionately concerned with heritage protection and documentation. His conception of the protection of antiquities and sites went into the formulation of the Lebanese Law of Antiquities which is still in use today. In 1929 he was appointed to head the newly-established Directorate of Antiquities of Syria and Lebanon. At the end of World War II he created the Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth, which he directed until 1967.
Henri Seyrig, numismatist, archaeologist and French historian of antiquity was actively and passionately concerned with heritage protection and documentation. His conception of the protection of antiquities and sites went into the formulation of the Lebanese Law of Antiquities which is still in use today. In 1929 he was appointed to head the newly-established Directorate of Antiquities of Syria and Lebanon. At the end of World War II he created the Institut Français d'Archéologie de Beyrouth, which he directed until 1967.
Special notice
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Sale room notice
It has been suggested that this head could date to the late 2nd millennium B.C.