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A Female Idol

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Amlash Terracotta Steatopygous Female Idol: Ancient Near East, Amlash Empire, early 1st Millennium BCE. Standing figure with exaggerated wide hips, thighs, and buttocks - emphasizing her fertility - attenuated arms, relatively long tapering nec

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Early Valdivian Pottery Female Idol Figure: Pre-Columbian, Ecuador, Valdivian culture, ca. 3500 to 1500 BCE. A hand-built pottery idol figure, with a feminine form, it is believed that the figures were used in fertility rituals. Her arms are cr

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Western Asiatic Amlash Female Idol: 1st millennium BC. A terracotta figurine with crouching legs, incised detail for the clothing, applied discoid face with brow ridge and ovoid eyes, pierced to the reverse, stem above. 306 grams, 20cm

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Western Asiatic Female Idol: 3rd millennium BC. A moulded ceramic figurine of a female in crested headdress with ropework collar, belt and loincloth, supporting her breasts in her hands. 82 grams, 12cm (4 3/4") Property of a Germ

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Anatolian Tell Halaf Pottery Female Idol: **Originally Listed At $400** Western Asia/Near East, Anatolia (central Turkey) or northern Syria, Tell Halaf area, ca. 6500 to 4500 BCE. A fascinating pottery fertility figure depicting a seated woma

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Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Idol: Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Idol Date: ca. 3200 - 2000 BC Rare, Indus Valley female fertility idol. Such idols are often found in the houses of the Indus valley civilization; it is suggeste

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Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Idol: Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Idol Date: ca. 3200 - 2000 BC Material: terracotta Size: 128mm; 63grams Rare, Indus Valley female fertility idol. Such idols are often found in the houses of the

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Judahite Pillar Figurine: Salmon color solid pottery standing female idol, holding both hands under breasts. See equivalent Metropolitan Museum of Art. 6-3/4" H Provenance: Ex collection, New Hampshire

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Greek Cycladic Figurine of Idol Greek Statue Copy: Greek cycladic figurine of female idol. This is a museum copy of an original. Made of a cream color plaster depicting a feminine form. Set on wooden base. Metal tagged on foot in Greek language. No ot

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Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Fertility Idol: Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Fertility Idol Circa 3300-2000 BC Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Fertility Idol, has been restored. Professionally cleaned and polished to show original

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Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Fertility Idol: Ancient Indus Valley Terracotta Female Fertility Idol Figurine Date: Circa 3300-2000 BC Material: Terracotta Size: 117mm; 51grams Obtained from an old British collection; Purchased from a private Lond

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Ancient Indus Valley Female Fertility Idol: Item: Ancient Indus Valley Female Fertility Idol Date: Circa 3300-2000 BC Material: terracotta Dimensions: 120mm; 55grams Ancient Indus Valley Female Fertility Idol. The item comes with a Lifetime Aut

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Indus Valley Mehrgarh Pottery Fertility Idol, TL Tested: **First Time At Auction** Ancient Central Asia, Indus Valley, Mehrgarh culture, ca. 3500 to 2800 BCE. A hand-built pottery female fertility idol of a characteristically abstract form with slender limb

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Ethnographic Grouping: Ethnographic Grouping. Including a Female Fertility Ceramic Idol Figurine - Mehr Gahr, Baluchistan Region. Height of figure: in. 6 (+ small stand) and Two Pre-Columbian Pottery Bowls, Guerrero region,

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Stone Age Standing Vinča Idol: 6th-4th millennium BC. A ceramic figurine of a standing female with prominent nose, short extended arms, incised details to neck, face and body. 200 grams, 14cm (5 1/2"). Property of a European gentle

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Stone Age Vin?a Standing Idol: Neolithic, 6th-4th millennium BC. A ceramic figurine of a standing female with prominent nose, arms extended, incised detail to neck, face and body. See Villes, A & Luci, K. Dieux des Balkans. Figurin

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Eastern Mediterranean, Bronze Age, possibly Cypriot 2nd mill. B.C..Terracotta. H. 9.6 cm. W. 7.3 cmStylized human figurine on a round stand. High headdress. Small breasts. The raised arms possibly indicate a gesture of praying. Typologically related to the Mycenaean so-called Psi idols. Larger parts of the white slip preserved. Traces of red paint. Large part of the right arm lost. Small part of the left arm reattached.Formerly Coll. Prof. Hans Dahn (1919-2019), Lausanne; acquired 1956.