TWO BOUND 'ASIATIC' PRISONERS, bearded and naked, with hands and feet tied back to back with yellow and blue bands around a papyrus column, with ladder-patterned border, opaque white, red, yellow, green and blue canes, on dark blue matrix, probably an inlay from a side of a throne
Details
TWO BOUND 'ASIATIC' PRISONERS, bearded and naked, with hands and feet tied back to back with yellow and blue bands around a papyrus column, with ladder-patterned border, opaque white, red, yellow, green and blue canes, on dark blue matrix, probably an inlay from a side of a throne
3rd-1st Century B.C.
2.1cm. square
Lot Essay
Cf. Goldstein, no. 697; Kofler, Christie's, 5 and 6 March 1895, lot 244