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CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
TEN SOUTH ARABIAN GOLD NECKLACE ELEMENTS
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
All with ribbed tubular suspension loops with raised collars, granules below, including two fanning lotus blossoms, two feline heads, two ram heads, two palmettes, and one horned bull head, and a Neo-Assyrian banded agate stamp seal, cut down and adapted as a pendant, the flat oval stone engraved with a bearded hero clad in a fringed cloak, a sickle in his lowered hand, gripping a rearing stag with his other hand, encircled in a plain bezel fringed with granules
Largest: 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long
CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
All with ribbed tubular suspension loops with raised collars, granules below, including two fanning lotus blossoms, two feline heads, two ram heads, two palmettes, and one horned bull head, and a Neo-Assyrian banded agate stamp seal, cut down and adapted as a pendant, the flat oval stone engraved with a bearded hero clad in a fringed cloak, a sickle in his lowered hand, gripping a rearing stag with his other hand, encircled in a plain bezel fringed with granules
Largest: 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long
Provenance
Private Collection, Ashdod, Israel, late 1980s.
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