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” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
2000 Utopia Art
acquired in the early 1980s
Provenance: Private collection of the late S
Otherwise intact
A Near Eastern Carnelian Lion Amulet, Proto-Elamite period, ca. 3100 - 2700 BCE Sculpture - Terracotta ” In Heilbrunn Timeline ofThis charming image takes full advantage of the color variations from fine two toned carnelian. The beast is rendered in relief, its turned head with round cheeks flanking a wedge shaped nose, is sculpted fully in the round. The white head contrasts beautifully with the recumbent orange body. Such relief sculpture is unusual for Central Asia: the only other published examples are a fragment of a steatite plaque from Margiana with a low relief image of
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