Auction 65
Coins, Weights, Seals, Jewelry, Oil Lamps, Glass, Antiquities
By Archaeological Center Ltd
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Sep 27, 2018
Mazal Dagim St., Old City of Jaffa, Israel
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LOT 433:
A PHOENICIAN "NIMRUD" BRONZE BOWL
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Sold for: $32,000
Estimated price :
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20,000 - $25,000
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A PHOENICIAN "NIMRUD" BRONZE BOWL
9th-8th century BCE. Depicting seven winged sphinxes, with human heads wearing Osiris crowns. Six of them rest a front paw on a small kneeling human figure, and the seventh sphinx rest his paw on a papyrus plant. The center of the bowl is covered with floral motifs. Above and below the sphinxes there are bands of a cable pattern. A very rare bowl, cleaned and in good condition. 18.8 cm in diameter. Published in: Dragons, Monsters and Fabulous Beasts, Edited by J. G. Westenholz, BLM, Jerusalem, 2004, page 138. For another very similar bowl in the British Museum, possibly from the same workshop, see: Sabatino Moscati et all, The Phoenicians, 1988, p. 438; J.E. Curtis and J.E. Reade editors, Art and Empire. Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, 1995, pp. 136-7. Ex S.M. collection, Herzliya Pituah.
Estimate: $ 20,000 – 25,000
