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Neolithic Exceptional Fertility Idol (Mother Goddess Head)with Unique, Abstractive Portrait & Impressive Hair.
Portrait Characterisics like an embossed big round eyes and ''beak'' type of  nose. Extremely interesting triangle hairstyle carefully going back on her head engraved with an awl over the Impressive brownish surface. Only the head, presumably part of ritually broken figurine and only like a head  is in excellent grade of preservation 
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Extremely Rare

Size: 3,7cm.


Purchased by the current owner in 2015 in Austria, Wien from Collector fair.
Collected Since: 1990's.
Previous owners history: Old Austrian Private Collection.


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ca. 6000-4500 BC.

Neolithic Terracotta Exceptional Fertility Idol (Mother Goddess Head)with Unique, Abstractive Portrait & Impressive Hair

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