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A Sumerian indurated limestone head of a female worshipper

3 July 2019, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Sumerian indurated limestone head of a female worshipper
Early Dynastic Period, circa 3rd Millennium B.C.
Wearing an incised turban-like headdress, with deep, sunken eyes, once inlaid, grooved arching brows above, the ears pierced for now-missing earrings, 4cm high

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Provenance:
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 24 October 1995, lot 217.
Gottfried and Helga Hertel collection, Cologne, acquired at the above sale.

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