A PERSIAN PALE POTTERY SPOUTED JUG, the globular body with decoration in dark red slip consisting of cross-hatched rays around the spout, two squares containing lozenges on each side of the small ring handle, and a zig-zag line around the neck, slight repairs to rim and neck, 9th-7th Century B.C., from Tepe Sialk, 6 3/4in. (17cm.) high; the upper part of a terracotta statuette of a bearded man, probably Phoenician, mid-1st millennium B.C., 9in. (23cm.) high; and an Etruscan terracotta funerary head of a woman, 10in. (25.5cm.) high (3)

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A PERSIAN PALE POTTERY SPOUTED JUG, the globular body with decoration in dark red slip consisting of cross-hatched rays around the spout, two squares containing lozenges on each side of the small ring handle, and a zig-zag line around the neck, slight repairs to rim and neck, 9th-7th Century B.C., from Tepe Sialk, 6 3/4in. (17cm.) high; the upper part of a terracotta statuette of a bearded man, probably Phoenician, mid-1st millennium B.C., 9in. (23cm.) high; and an Etruscan terracotta funerary head of a woman, 10in. (25.5cm.) high (3)

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Item one: a thermoluminescence analysis report from the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology accompanies this vessel

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