A Syrian pottery stylized female head

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A Syrian pottery stylized female head
wearing elaborate hairstyle with protruding rectangular chignon behind, central rosette on her forehead, wearing two ridged collared bands around neck, applied details, mounted -- 2½in. (6.4cm.) high; a seated male figure, wearing headband, traces of an applied necklace -- 4¼in. (10.8cm.) high; and a standing female idol, with arms held beneath her breasts, her hair falling in side tresses, repaired with slight restoration -- 4in. (10cm.) high, all 2nd millennium B.C. (3)

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