A Persian Terracotta Figure of a Goddess, Southwest Caspian Area, circa 1200-900 B.C.

of columnar form, standing with her circular arms held beneath her breasts, and wearing incised anklets, armlets, fragmentary bronze earrings, and cylindrical crenelated diadem, with dotted-circle navel and eyes, incised fingers, pierced ears with notched rims, and long applied braid falling from beneath the diadem behind, a bronze cone inside the head.

Joseph Ternbach Collection, New York (Sotheby's, New York, November 24th, 1987, no. 61, illus.)

"A Scholar's Study," The Jewish Museum, New York, 1973-1974

Dorothy Budd, The Art Called Amlash, catalogue of the exhibition at the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, 1968-1969, no. 3

very good, broken and repaired across mid body with very little loss around the breakline, proper left foot chipped, TL test hole underneath proper right foot
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For related examples see Sotheby's, London , November 7th, 1977, no. 95, and Sotheby's, New York, December 14th, 1994, no. 157, and June 25th, 1992, no. 163.