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

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with Elias S. David (1891-1969), New York; thence by descent.

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This lot is offered without reserve.

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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.

CIRCA 2000-1800 B.C.

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