APIS BULL DISK, tapering slightly, 'black' and white markings on the bull with yellow sun disk and uraeus between its horns, trampling a yellow cobra surmounted by a turquoise 'crown' which emerges from a dark blue baseline. Above its back hangs a 'garland' of white rings between upright red 'petals' with detailed blue and white wedjat-eye in the centre, in blue matrix with turquoise surround, from a ring bezel(?)

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APIS BULL DISK, tapering slightly, 'black' and white markings on the bull with yellow sun disk and uraeus between its horns, trampling a yellow cobra surmounted by a turquoise 'crown' which emerges from a dark blue baseline. Above its back hangs a 'garland' of white rings between upright red 'petals' with detailed blue and white wedjat-eye in the centre, in blue matrix with turquoise surround, from a ring bezel(?)
3rd-1st Century B.C.
1.3cm. diam., 0.4cm. thick

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