拍品专文
For related ram's head pendants see nos. 97-100 in Wenig, Africa in Antiquity II, The Arts of Ancient Nubia and the Sudan.
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CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
细节
A KUSHITE BANDED AGATE RAM'S HEAD PENDANT
Circa 7th-6th Century B.C.
With long ridged horns and detailed features, sculpted to exploit the natural bands of the stone, the solar-disk perforated for suspension and now joined to a necklace of barrel-shaped banded agate beads, diamond-shaped carnelian beads, knobbed gold beads and spherical gold beads
.15/16 in. (2.4 cm) long
Circa 7th-6th Century B.C.
With long ridged horns and detailed features, sculpted to exploit the natural bands of the stone, the solar-disk perforated for suspension and now joined to a necklace of barrel-shaped banded agate beads, diamond-shaped carnelian beads, knobbed gold beads and spherical gold beads
.15/16 in. (2.4 cm) long