LOT 1980 Western Asiatic Proto-Bactrian Pillar Idol
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Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC. A carved columnar limestone idol with tapering body and flared upper, shallow slot to both flat faces. 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, Philadelphia, pl.CXXXVI. 6.6 kg, 26.5cm (10 1/2"). Property of a Suffolk collector; formerly acquired on the European art market in the 1990s.
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