My wife would kill me if I placed a bid on this and a bankruptcy judge would hunt me down, but a boy can dream, right? Christie’s is selling a pazuzu, a Neo-Assyrian demon, head. The anticipated gavel price is between $20,000-30,000 and if you want to try to win it, follow the link.
If you are interested in the pazuzu demon the best book on the subject is:
Pazuzu
Archaologische und Philologische Studien zu einem altorientalischen Damon
Ancient Magic and Divination – AMD 4
by Nils P. Heessel
Styx Publications, 2002
viii + 253 pages, German
Cloth
ISBN: 9789004123861
List Price: $193.00
Your Price: $183.35
www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HEEPAZUZU
Apart from a ‘lamassu’ flanking my front portico, I can think of no better way to accentuate my home decor.
What better way to keep away the baby-snatching demons!
Not to be a “buzz kill”, but this is precisely the sort of object lust that perpetuates the illicit antiquities market. YES, more de-contextualized (and possibly fake) Near Eastern object, please.