Near Eastern, 1st millennium B.C.

Bronze

H: 7 cm

Serial: 35882

PROVENANCE: Ex- Dr. Elie Borowski private collection, Basel, Switzerland, prior to 1975; Christie’s, New York, 13 June 2000, lot 470; The Gilbert collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, acquired in London, 19 June 2001.

EXHIBITED AND PUBLISHED: “Arts de l’ancien Iran’ Musee Borely, Marseilles, 1975, No. 182.

This ram of abstracted form as a smooth cylindrical body flaring to the front and rear, the legs short and tapering, the front and rear rendered as flat continuous surfaces angled slightly to the feet, a vertical notched ridge for the tail, the edges of the forelegs with a deep vertical groove between notches, the rump similarly rendered, a suspension loop to the back, the tapering head with two deep holes for eyes and small spiraling horns.