THREE SUMERIAN AMULETS

LATE URUK/JEMDET NASR PERIOD, CIRCA 3100-2900 B.C.

细节
THREE SUMERIAN AMULETS
late uruk/jemdet nasr period, circa 3100-2900 b.c.
Including a white and red-veined marble lion in profile to the left, the eye drilled, pierced vertically through the center, the underside with a drilled pattern, perhaps representing animals; an agate bull's head, the eyes drilled, pierced twice on the proper right side, once on the left; and a shell standing calf, the eyes drilled, pierced through the shoulders
1.5/8 in. (4.1 cm) wide for the first (3)
来源
Belgian Private Collection
出版
Poussart, ed., In de schaduw van Babel, De kunst van het Oude Nabije Oosten in Belgische verzamelingen, no. 2-11, p. 41 & p. 71.