Head of a male figure. The eyes are hollowed out to accommodate inlays (missing). Limestone, broken and glued, with visible missing parts and restoration of the nose. Mesopotamia, 3rd millennium BC Height: 5 cm Provenance: French private collection Christies sale April 20, 2005, n. 66 H. J. P. Bomford: sothebys sale December 7, 1976, lot 178 Mrs Brenda Bomford's collection built up around 1935 Publication and exhibition: Antiquities from the Bomford collection, exhibition catalog Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1966, n 226 EXPERT / Marie-Margaux Cohen 06 84 53 82 03 [email protected] Voluntary fees 30%ttc

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