CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
Details
A GROUP OF EIGHTEEN HELLENISTIC ANTIQUITIES
circa 4th-3rd century b.c.
The remains from a jewelry or cosmetic chest, including two bone plaques, one carved with a draped woman and a child, perhaps the infant Herakles, being attacked by a snake, the other carved with a winged Herakles with lion-skin and club; an ivory comb; a bronze pin; an ivory spoon; three carved bone feet in the form of sphinxes, with four toes and stylized wings; with seven bone rectangles and three bone cylinders, some with perforations
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high for the first (18)
circa 4th-3rd century b.c.
The remains from a jewelry or cosmetic chest, including two bone plaques, one carved with a draped woman and a child, perhaps the infant Herakles, being attacked by a snake, the other carved with a winged Herakles with lion-skin and club; an ivory comb; a bronze pin; an ivory spoon; three carved bone feet in the form of sphinxes, with four toes and stylized wings; with seven bone rectangles and three bone cylinders, some with perforations
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high for the first (18)
Provenance
Galerie Nefer, Zurich, 1989, p. 20.