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A Cypriot limestone male votive head

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24 October 2012, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Cypriot limestone male votive head
Cypro-Archaic to Cypro-Classical, early 5th Century B.C.
Depicted with a short beard, wearing a patterned diadem in his short hair, with almond-shaped eyes and a smiling mouth, a drilled hole in the top of his head for attachment of a motif perhaps, the remains of a strut behind, 6½in (16.5cm) high, mounted

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Joseph Klein Collection, formed in New York between 1941 and 1980. Thence by descent.

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