Lot Essay
For the above and following lot, Cf. Pottier, op. cit., pp. 41-42, pl. XXXIV; Schmidt, op. cit., pl. CXXXVI; and Schmidt, Excavations at Tépe Hissar Damghan, The University Museum, Philadelphia, 1937, pp. 216-9, pl. LXI for similar 'cult'-idols found, often with a disk, near the Caspian Sea at Tépe Hissar in the 1930's.