Ancient Greek terracotta God idol, circa 400-500 BC

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Ancient Greek terracotta God Idol, circa 5th century BC. Height: 4 3/8 inches = 11.11 cm. Weight: 163.22 g; Unusual terracotta god idol made with separate head. The body has original painted decoration. The body of the idol is original ancient, but head is a later match. Provenance: Ex Robert Haber, Ancient Art, New York City gallery. Robert Habera’s interest in archeology and antiquities came about while studying in Jerusalem. While working on an excavation, he discovered the practical world of archaeological conservation, and was immediately enthralled with the field. In pursuit of a career in the conservation of antiquities, Mr. Haber was awarded an apprenticeship at the Israel Museum and was later hired by the restoration department. He went on to study at the University College London as a Kress Fellow under Prof. Henry Hodges and received a Diploma in the Conservation of Ancient Materials. Condition report: chips and insignificant losses as seen. Reference: Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories. Most of these regions were officially unified only once, for 13 years, under Alexander the Great's empire from 336 to 323 BC.[a] In Western history, the era of classical antiquity was immediately followed by the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine period.[1]

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