Stylized stone head of a bull with neat carving to separate snout, triangular head and horns. Some incisions near the eyes.
The hole for suspension is drilled just below the horns.
Stone
Near Eastern, 2nd/1st Millennium BC
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Highly stylized head of a bull of angular shape. Neat cuts for the mouth, the nostrils and the horns.
The hole for suspension is drilled through the eyes.
Stone
Near Eastern, 3rd/2nd Millennium BC
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Small bronze amulet in the shape of a zebu bull. The animal is showing short forelegs, a vestigial tail. The ears are indicated below the prominent horn. A hole for suspension through the hunchback.
Bronze
Near Eastern, early 1st Millennium BC
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A couple of Sumerian shell beads or pendants of annular shape with pierced knobs for suspension.
The items remind Sumerian shell money cut from cone shaped shells brought from the Mediterranean shore.
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Small jet amulet depicting a human bust with neatly carved features such as vivid eyes below a projecting forehead and detailed ears. Drilled circles for the breasts and notches for the sternum and the spine. Two incised lines on the back to indicate some sort of cloak.
Jet (lignite) is fossilized wood much valued in ancient times to manufacture jewelry.
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Small pair of feet with incised details of the footwear. Rendered as amulets or pendants with drilled suspension holes at the ankles.
Calcite
Sumerian, around 2100-1700 BC.
L. 1.9 cm (0.75 in) and 1.6 cm (0.6 in)
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Djemdet Nasr Period calcite amulet in the shape of a miniature mace with three stylized heads. The eyes rendered with drilled holes, the faces framed with incised lines.
Djemdet Nasr is a Mesopotamian site located north-east of Babylon and Kish.
Calcite
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Calcite amulet in the shape of a stylized animal. A suspension hole through the belly.
Calcite
Protosumerian, Djemdet Nasr Period, early 3rd millennium BC
L. 1.9 cm (0.75 in)
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Protosumerian calcite amulet in the shape of a reclining animal with large globular eyes and indicated mouth, ears, tail and legs.
Hole for suspension along the body.
Calcite
Protosumerian, Djemdet Nasr Period, early 3rd millennium BC
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Appealing bottle-shaped socle with a small bulge an the join to the very long neck and flared disk rim on top. Wax strands overlaid to obtain the stepped bottom and the band on the neck.
The upper end with a hole to insert a heraldic bronze finial (opposed animals, master of animals, etc)
Almost identical items no. 110 and 112 in: J. Rickenbach. Magier mit Feuer und Erz. Zurich 1992.
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