Provenance Ex-private collection.
Notes The use of colored cornalines of similar shape and size can be seen in Bactrian gems from the prehistoric period: LIGABUE G. - SALVATORI S. (ed.), Bactria: An Ancient Oasis Civilisation from the Sands of Afghanistan, Venice, 1988, p. 184, p. 208, n. 70-71.
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LIGABUE G. - SALVATORI S. (ed.), op. cit. note (1), pp. 192-193, p. 195, n. 42 (a small group in gold with two wolves attacking a mouflon), n. 44-46 (two tigers or panthers in chlorite and gold with semi-precious stone inlays imitating the pelt of the cat); Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, n. 249, p. 356.
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The two silver gilt axes in: Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium B.C. from the Mediterranean to the Indus, New York, 2003, n. 264, pp. 373374 (the same in PITTMAN H., Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Asia and the Indus Valley, New York, 1984, pp. 76-77, n. 36). In Pursuit of the Absolute: Art of the Ancient World, Bern, 1994, n. 14bis. For other axes of the same type, although in bronze, see: LIGABUE G.- SALVATORI S. (ed.), op. cit. note (1), pp. n. 95-97, pp. 227-228. On the use and classification of these axes, see: AMIET P., L’âge des échanges in ter-iranies, 3500-1700 av. J.-C., Paris, 1987, pp. 196-197, fig. 166-173.
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