PLAQUETTE À ISHTAR

ISHTAR PLATE
in rectangular clay with rounded top
decorated with a representation of the goddess
Ishtar, standing in a niche surrounded
stars in slight relief.
Mesopotamia, Palaeo-Babylonian period,
early 2nd millennium B.C.
Height: 10.4 cm - Width: 6.4 cm
Depth: 2.6 cm
(Very good overall condition, with attached setting)

PROVENANCE
Phidias sale June 15, 2018, lot 66 indicated there
as the former private collection of Monsieur
Jacques Schuman and acquired in May 1962
galerie Koutoulakis (Paris).