Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium B.C. A stone idol figure modelled seated and cloaked, marble head with stylised facial features, the body covered with interlocking triangles with hatched fill; body of serpentine or steatite. Cf. Caubet, A. & Bernus-Taylor, M., The Louvre - Near Eastern Antiquities, London, 1991, p.50, for aparable figure; cf. Pottier, M-H., Materiel Funeraire de la Bactriane Meridionale De L'Age Du Bronze, France, memoire no 36, fig.42 and pl.XLII, for the triangular motif. 124 grams, 65 mm (2 1/2 in.). Acquired between 1980-1990. Property of a London gentleman. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is apanied by AIAD certificate no.11337-193226.