This page lists Near Eastern pieces currently available for purchase from the Merrin Gallery website. Price is available on request.
MONUMENTAL PHIALE
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Achaemenid, 5th – 6th century BCE
Bronze
Height: 4 inches (10 cm)
Diameter: 16 ½ inches (42 cm)
Provenance: Ex. Private American collection (R. Wagner, 1960s)
VESSEL IN THE FORM OF A RAM’S HEAD
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Mesopotamian, Possibly from Mari, Syria
Mid-third millennium BC
Silver
Length: 7-1/8 inches (18.0 cm)
Width: 4-3/4 inches (12.1 cm)
Depth: 3-3/8 inches (8.5 cm)
Provenance: Private New York collection, 1981
Exhibitions: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999-2002, 2003-2006; Brooklyn Museum, 1984
HEAD OF A BULL
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Assyrian, 9th-8th century BC
Copper alloy
Height: 3 inches (7 cm)
Provenance: European art market, 1985; Ex private American collection
HEAD OF A PRIEST
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Sumerian, probably 3rd dynasty of Ur
2100-1900 BC
Terracotta with red and brown pigment
Height: 9 inches (22.8 cm)
Provenance: Ben Heller, 1973
Elie Borowski
Published: Sotheby’s, New York, 24-25, November 1987, lot 58
KOHL VESSEL OF AN EXTINCT CAMELID WITH BIRD DIPPER
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Bactrian, 3rd-2nd millennium BC
Arsenic copper
Height (without pin): 4-7/8 inches (12.4 cm)
Provenance: Galerie Nefer Ancient Art, Zurich
European private collection, acquired in the early 1980s