Lot Essay
For related fibulae see nos. 47-59 in N.P. Heessel, Pazuzu, Archäologische und Philologische Studien zu einem altorientalischen Dämon.
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PROPERTY FROM THE LIGABUE FAMILY COLLECTION
A NEO-ASSYRIAN BRONZE FIBULA
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A NEO-ASSYRIAN BRONZE FIBULA
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Solid cast, v-shaped, each arm with a ram head joined to a ribbed oval at the base, each topped by a ribbed disk, one surmounted by a seated veiled goddess nursing a child, and one surmounted by the head of Pazuzu with a bird standing on his head, its forward curving head once serving as the catch-plate, the head of the goddess with a cylindrical mortise for insertion of the now-missing pin, the underside of the ribbed oval base serving as a seal, with a rearing ibex as the device
2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm.) wide
CIRCA 7TH CENTURY B.C.
Solid cast, v-shaped, each arm with a ram head joined to a ribbed oval at the base, each topped by a ribbed disk, one surmounted by a seated veiled goddess nursing a child, and one surmounted by the head of Pazuzu with a bird standing on his head, its forward curving head once serving as the catch-plate, the head of the goddess with a cylindrical mortise for insertion of the now-missing pin, the underside of the ribbed oval base serving as a seal, with a rearing ibex as the device
2 3/16 in. (5.5 cm.) wide
Provenance
with Elie Borowski, Basel, 1975.
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