AN AMLASH POTTERY FEMALE IDOL, of stylized form, standing with hands holding her breasts, the top of the domed head with a horizontal relief line at the front and a vertical rib at the back to indicate hair, the pierced ears with both bronze hoop earrings intact, the back flat from the neck down, circa late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C. | Christie's

Lot 188

188

AN AMLASH POTTERY FEMALE IDOL, of stylized form, standing with hands holding her breasts, the top of the domed head with a horizontal relief line at the front and a vertical rib at the back to indicate hair, the pierced ears with both bronze hoop earrings intact, the back flat from the neck down, circa late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.

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AN AMLASH POTTERY FEMALE IDOL, of stylized form, standing with hands holding her breasts, the top of the domed head with a horizontal relief line at the front and a vertical rib at the back to indicate hair, the pierced ears with both bronze hoop earrings intact, the back flat from the neck down, circa late 2nd/early 1st millennium B.C.
8¼in. (21cm.) high

Lot Essay

A thermoluminescence analysis report from the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology accompanies this lot

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