Lot Essay
Cf. D. Collon, Ancient Near Eastern Art, The British Museum, London, 1995, pp. 101-103, pl. 83; and P. O. Harper et al (eds.), The Royal City of Susa: Ancient Near Eastern Treasures in the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1992, pp. 186-187 and 195, nos. 122-123 and 136 for terracotta musicians holding similar instruments.