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accession number: 17
Pforzheim "Jewelry from Persia
2018 My Country
Melbourne2003 Desert Mob
A Near Eastern Carnelian Lion Amulet, Proto-Elamite period, ca. 3100 - 2700 BCE Gaming Pieces accession number: 17This 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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