A PROFILE HEAD, CAST, OPAQUE RED WITH GREEN AND WHITE WEATHERING, surface partially broken away, eye recessed for inlay, with broad ear lobe, 3.5cm. high; a broad floral collar, fused mosaic rods, green band with red-centred yellow daisies, blue band with white and red petalled flowers, and red band with black lotus flowers, 2.4cm. wide; hand with clenched fist, opaque red, 4.8cm. long; four petalled 'net' kilt, fused mosaic rods, dark brown and white cruciform flowers with yellow centres, 2.7cm. high; and fragmentary thigh and knee, opaque red, 2.2cm. high, 4th-1st Century B.C. (5)
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A PROFILE HEAD, CAST, OPAQUE RED WITH GREEN AND WHITE WEATHERING, surface partially broken away, eye recessed for inlay, with broad ear lobe, 3.5cm. high; a broad floral collar, fused mosaic rods, green band with red-centred yellow daisies, blue band with white and red petalled flowers, and red band with black lotus flowers, 2.4cm. wide; hand with clenched fist, opaque red, 4.8cm. long; four petalled 'net' kilt, fused mosaic rods, dark brown and white cruciform flowers with yellow centres, 2.7cm. high; and fragmentary thigh and knee, opaque red, 2.2cm. high, 4th-1st Century B.C. (5)
Lot Essay
For dating on the profile head, cf. R. S. Bianchi, Those ubiquitious glass inlays from Pharaonic Egypt, suggestions about their functions and dates, Journal of Glass Studies, 25, 1983, p. 32, fig. 4
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