Lot 125
125
AN OLD BABYLONIAN BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE
This lot is offered without reserve. PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ELIAS S. DAVID
AN OLD BABYLONIAN BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE

CIRCA 2000-1800 B.C.

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AN OLD BABYLONIAN BRONZE RELIEF PLAQUE
CIRCA 2000-1800 B.C.
Cast in the form of a suppliant goddess in profile to the right, wearing a conical horned headdress and a flounced, multi-tiered, striated tunic, the now-missing hands raised in adoration, two tenons on the reverse
5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high
Provenance
with Elias S. David (1891-1969), New York; thence by descent.
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Lot Essay

For a depiction of the suppliant goddess on a haematite cylinder seal see pl. 8 in T.S. Kawami and J. Olbrantz, Breath of Heaven, Breath of Earth, Ancient Near Eastern Art from American Collections. For a gypsum plaque with the goddess in profile to the left, excavated at Mari, see no. 132 in A. Parrot, Mari. For a bronze plaque showing a bearded god wearing a similar garment and headdress, now in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, see p. 135 in P. Azara, et al., Antes del Diluvio, Mesopotamia 3500-2100 A.C.

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