ANTHEMION AND HALF PALMETTES, opaque yellow, turquoise, green, white and translucent cobalt blue, in brick red matrix -- 2.3 x 1.5cm.; frieze of alternating palmette, buds, lotus, and buds and trefoils, opaque red, white and dark amber, in white matrix -- 3.1cm. long; another, with palmette; leaves and stamens; white daisies; yellow petals; and two yellow and red geometric bars -- 2.1cm. long max.

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ANTHEMION AND HALF PALMETTES, opaque yellow, turquoise, green, white and translucent cobalt blue, in brick red matrix -- 2.3 x 1.5cm.; frieze of alternating palmette, buds, lotus, and buds and trefoils, opaque red, white and dark amber, in white matrix -- 3.1cm. long; another, with palmette; leaves and stamens; white daisies; yellow petals; and two yellow and red geometric bars -- 2.1cm. long max.
circa 3rd-1st Century B.C. (8)

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Cf. Goldstein, no. 645 as "winged phallus"

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