A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD PENDANT WITH BUST OF APHRODITE

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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD PENDANT WITH BUST OF APHRODITE
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
The disc of sheet gold in repoussé technique, the bust of the draped goddess in high relief wearing a stephane decorated with dotted scrolls and a necklace with triangular pendants and dotted terminals, her wavy hair parted in the middle and drawn back in curling tresses at the sides, her right arm folded across her breast with her right hand outspread save for the third finger which is bent down, a diminutive winged Eros hovers at her right shoulder, enclosed within a beaded gold wire border, a ribbed suspension loop above with single gold granule at its base
1.3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high; 1.1/8 in. (3 cm.) diam.

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Cf. S. Walker and M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces: Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, The British Museum, London, 1997, p. 193, no. 194 for a similar medallion bust of Aphrodite and Eros (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum no. 1892.1601); also, F. H. Marshall, Catalogue of Jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, Roman, The British Museum, London, 1969, p. 342, pl. LXVIII, no. 2883 for similar from the Castellani Collection.