Lot no. 867
MESOPOTAMIAN BROWN STONE FROG AMULET - WITH ORIGINAL REPORT BY PROF. LAMBERT.
Ca. 3000 - 500 BC
A brown stone amulet in the form of a crouching frog with compact body and short limbs drawn in beneath, the head with drilled circular eyes and an open mouth, pierced laterally through the body and preserving traces of a bronze wire fitting.
Size: 36mm x 27mm; Weight: 17g.
Provenance: Private London collection of an Ancient Art dealer; Formerly in a central London family collections 1990s; Suggested to be examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.; ex. 1970s/early80s UK art market.
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