LOT 1804 Western Asiatic Proto-Bactrian Pillar Idol
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Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. A carved alabaster pillar idol with tapering columnar body and shallow incised slot to each face. Cf. Pottier, M. H., Matériel funéraire de la Bactriane méridonale de L' Age du Bronze, Mémoire, Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 36, p.16, pl.V, nos.34-5 for two virtually identical lingams called 'masses d'arme', and p.43, pl.XXXV, nos.292-3 for similar yoni; also, Schmidt, E. F., Tepe Hissar Excavations, 1931, The Museum Journal, XXIII, no.4, 1933, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadephia, pl.CXXXVI. 10.3 kg, 26.5cm (10 1/2"). Property of a London collector, acquired early 1990s.
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