Маска фараона, неведомым путем попавшая в Кара-Корум времен Чингиз-хана.
Показана - выставка "Сокровища Чингиз-хана", Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas, 2009
Courtesy of the Institute of Archaeology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Genghis-Khans-Treasures.html#ixzz2eMgsysZA
Head of Amenemmēs III in obsidian. From the collection of the rev. W. MacGregor, Tamworth. By Charles Ricketts
The Courtyard of the Cachette in the Temple of Amun at Karnak in Luxor (Ancient Thebes), Egypt, Part II: Head of a Statue
Size: Height 20 cm
Period: Second Halve of 18th Dynasty (14th Century BC)
Current Location: Egyptian Museum, JE 38248 (CG 42101)
Не уверен, что это обсидиан целиком.
Для сравнения:
A PHOENICIAN BLACK OBSIDIAN HEAD OF A DIVINITY
CIRCA EARLY 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
Probably an inlay, in Egyptianising style, wearing a close-fitting cap, the face with full lips, aquiline nose, almond-shaped eyes with recessed pupils, finely delineated cosmetic lines and contoured eyebrows
1 1/16 in. (2.7 cm.) high
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