Ca. 2000 BCA very interesting stone statuette sometimes referred to as Bactrian princess or Bactrian goddess. It depicts a seated lady wearing kaunakes - a fabric with long wicks imitating animal hair (goat or sheep). It is a very distinctive and rare object of the prehistoric civilization of Bactria. They are composite in nature, with the head (and also often a cap or other headdress) being separate from the body. They are made up of two or more different types of stone; usually green chlorite or steatite for the body, with heads of white limestone and occasionally in green chlorite. Bactria was the Greek name for the area of modern Balkh, in what is now northern Afghanistan and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan. For a similar see Mus閑 du Louvre, Paris - Main number: AO 28056.Size: L:93mm / W:90mm ; 730gProvenance: Property of a West London gentleman; previously in a collection formed on the UK/International art market in the 1980s.