Idol with a disk-head on a long neck and a pouch-like body with arm stumps.
Kusura-type, cf. item 520 in: Jürgen Thimme. Kunst der Kykladen. Karlsruhe 1976.
Marble
Anatolian, Early Bronze Age II, 2700 to 2400 BC
H. 5.1 cm (2 in)
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Hollow cast bronze figure of a baboon squatting on a stepped plinth.
The animal is seated on his haunches with the forepaws on his knees. The tail is drawn around the body to his right, the genitalia are exposed.
The cape-like mass of fur is incised with dotted scales. Skin folds along the forepaws and on the sides.
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Female figure standing in nice contrapposto accentuated by a virtuous drapery. The turned head with the elaborate hairdo is covered with a pointed sun hat.
Terracotta
Tarentine, 3rd century BC
H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in)
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Rather large Anatolian idol with small head on a long neck, the pouch-like body with stylized arm stumps.
Kusura-type. Larger variant of item no. 520 in: Jürgen Thimme. Kunst der Kykladen. Karlsruhe 1976.
Marble
Anatolian, Early Bronze Age II, 2700 to 2400 BC
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Stylized marble female head with flat forehead and triangular face.
Head of an early Anatolian idol usually referred to as a 'star gazer' figure.
For general remarks on the Kilia-type, cf. page 182 and items 560-566 in: J. Thimme. Kunst der Kykladen. Karlsruhe 1976.
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Cast bronze statuette of Apis striding on a rectangular base. The sacred bull carries the solar disk with uraeus between the horns and shows an incised triangle on the brow.
On the back the usual saddle cloth framed by open-winged scarabs. The heavy neck with an incised broad collar.
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Globular vessel with a cinquefoil grouped around a central wheel motif. Three leaves filled with red cores, the other two reserved.
Row of dots along the shoulder. The disk rim with a broad band and concentric lines, one more band around the rim edge.
A cursorily rendered star below the strap handle.
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Decorated with an erotic scene next to the small loop handle. The belly with a frieze of Bes figures framed by rosettes.
The dwarf god Bes was the protector of women in childbirth, neonates and the human body in general.
For a related pottery alabastron in Cairo cf. lot no. 50b, p. 102 in: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae ...click for details
The medallion decorated with the head of a satyr with wild locks and curled heavy beard. The face shows a fleshy nose, full lips and wide open eyes topped by marked eyebrows. The bold head with fine floccus. Goat-like ears.
Satyrs and silens were a very popular subject in the decoration of gutti.
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Black-glazed vessel with a medallion showing a Nereid riding on a Hippocamp – a prancing horse with a fish tail – to the left. The Nereid is holding an ovoid shield that covers her left arm and her shoulder.
The depiction belongs to a cortege of Nereids carrying the arms of Achilles. The Nereids were sea nymphs and sometimes shown riding dolphins or ketoi (sea snakes).
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