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A Syro-Hittite pottery female idol of stylized form, standing with hands held to her breasts, wearing high perforated headdress and necklace, the navel, breasts and eyes indicated with applied roundels -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high; another, with straight body flaring at feet, face highly stylized with beak nose, wearing an elaborate curled hairstyle with long braid falling behind, and a series of applied necklaces -- 4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) high, both 2nd millennium B.C. (2)

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A Syro-Hittite pottery female idol of stylized form, standing with hands held to her breasts, wearing high perforated headdress and necklace, the navel, breasts and eyes indicated with applied roundels -- 4¾in. (12cm.) high; another, with straight body flaring at feet, face highly stylized with beak nose, wearing an elaborate curled hairstyle with long braid falling behind, and a series of applied necklaces -- 4 1/8in. (10.5cm.) high, both 2nd millennium B.C. (2)

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