3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. RATHER THAN EARLIER

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A NEAR EASTERN MARBLE FIGURE OF A PREGNANT MOUFLON
3RD MILLENNIUM B.C. RATHER THAN EARLIER
With curved horns and prominent ears, the body softly modelled to show the swelling on both sides, on short, schematically rounded legs
5¼ in. (13.5 cm.) long

Exhibited

Les animaux du 6ème jour: Les animaux dans la Bible et dans l'Orient ancien, Fribourg and nine venues in Germany and Switzerland, 2000-2003.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 250; Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 150.; O. Keel and T. Staubli, Les animaux du 6ème jour, Musée Bible + Orient, Fribourg, 2003, p. 30, no. 2.

Ulrich Hübner writes: "Through its soft yet powerful form, roundness and linearity, this splendid figurine of a female animal embodies the concepts of vitality, strength and fertility."

Cf. H. Pittman, The Art of the Bronze Age, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1984, p. 85, pl. 39 for similar dated to Indus Valley Civilization, 3rd millennium B.C.

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