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Western Asiatic Mesopotamian Duck Weight

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Western Asiatic Mesopotamian Duck Weight

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2nd millennium BC. A haematite weight in the form of a duck, head along the back of the body. Exhibited: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Genève Exhibition, 30 March-20 September 2000: Animaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Bestiaire de Collections Genevoises (Animals of Art and of History, Bestiary of Genevan Collections"). Published: Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Genève Exhibition, 30 March-20 September 2000: Animaux d'Art et d'Histoire - Bestiaire de Collections Genevoises (Animals of Art and of History, Bestiary of Genevan Collections), cat.no.25. 4/10 grams, 21mm (3/4"). From an important London collection of animal amulets formed in the 1970s; some published and many previously exhibited; accompanied by the relevant pages of Animaux D'Art et D'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, 2000, cat.no.25.