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Byzantine Bone Doll - PF.0150
Origin: Jerusalem
Circa: 400
AD
to 600
AD
Dimensions:
4.75" (12.1cm) high
x 1.125" (2.9cm) wide
Collection: Byzantine Art
Style: Byzantine
Medium: Bone
$1,500.00
Location: United States
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| Description |
For as long as there has been civilization,
children have played with dolls. Wooden dolls
with bead hair have been found in Egypt, and
terracotta ones from Greece and Rome. Since
dolls are traditionally made mostly from
perishable material like cloth, most do not
survive past the youth of their owners. This
wide-eyed effigy must once have been the
prized possession of some child living in the
sunset of the Classical world. Many generations
of children have grown up since then, yet such an
object still has the power to touch our hearts.
- (PF.0150)
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