Lot 179
179
A SUMERIAN SHELL AMULET IN THE FORM OF TWO ADDORSED BULLS, each reclining with legs folded underneath, their eyes recessed to take inlays (now missing), centrally pierced through their backs for suspension, first half of 3rd millennium B.C.

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A SUMERIAN SHELL AMULET IN THE FORM OF TWO ADDORSED BULLS, each reclining with legs folded underneath, their eyes recessed to take inlays (now missing), centrally pierced through their backs for suspension, first half of 3rd millennium B.C.
1½in. (3.7cm.) long

Lot Essay

P. Amiet, Art of the Ancient Near East, New York, 1980, pp. 373 and 448, no. 351 for similar in the form of a pair of androcephalic cows from Nippur, circa 2650 B.C.

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