Lot 318
318
A SUMERIAN GYPSUM HEAD, probably from a bearded male votive statuette, with large open recesses for the eyes (to take inlay), deeply grooved arching eyebrows and a pinched mouth, Early Dynastic III, circa 2500 B.C.

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A SUMERIAN GYPSUM HEAD, probably from a bearded male votive statuette, with large open recesses for the eyes (to take inlay), deeply grooved arching eyebrows and a pinched mouth, Early Dynastic III, circa 2500 B.C.
2in. (5cm.) high
Provenance
Found at Tell Assuad, Iraq in 1965

Lot Essay

Cf. P. Amiet, Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1980, p. 360, col. pls. 32 and 34, fig. 258

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