CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.

Details

A BACTRIAN COPPER-ALLOY STAMP SEAL
CIRCA LATE 3RD-EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

Provenance

with Paropamiso, Venice, 1985.
Dr Giancarlo Ligabue (1931-2015), Venice, acquired from the above.

Literature

S. Winkelmann, Steals of the Oasis from the Ligabue Collection, Padova 2004, no.I.1-25, pp. 93-94.
G. Ligabue and G. Rossi Osmida, Dea Madre, Milano 2006, p. 235.

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Lot Essay

Cast in the form of a woman sitting on her haunches and wearing a long dress, which looks like a stylised kaunakes skirt. Both arms are raised in front of her chest. S. Winkelmann, p. 93, op. cit., notes that the facial features and hairdo are nearly identical with the depiction on a compartmented seal of a seated drinking woman, which seems to come from the Kerman area.

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