拍品 64
64
Various Properties
A GOLD AND PLASMA SCARAB, the scarab naturalistically modelled, the underside cut with talismanic hieroglyphs, namely, a seated deity holding feather of truth, sun disc and falcon, with seated cat and papyrus clump in row below, set in a gold swivel mount on an incurving hoop with ridged suspension loop, probably Phoenician, 6th Century B.C.

細節
A GOLD AND PLASMA SCARAB, the scarab naturalistically modelled, the underside cut with talismanic hieroglyphs, namely, a seated deity holding feather of truth, sun disc and falcon, with seated cat and papyrus clump in row below, set in a gold swivel mount on an incurving hoop with ridged suspension loop, probably Phoenician, 6th Century B.C.
1 3/8in. (3.5cm.) width of hoop
來源
Ralph Harari collection

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
J. Boardman and D. Scarisbrook, The Ralph Harari Collection of Finger Rings, London, 1977, no. 89, p. 42, pl. 89

Cf. D. Harden, The Phoenicians, London, 1971, pl. 99 from the 'Aliseda Treasure' and pl. 53, Museo Arqueol. Nacional, Madrid (no. 28.561)