拍品专文
Item 2: an ink inscription reads "From Amrah, 4 miles from Abydos, Upper Egypt. Chauncey March. July 1898. Graves" Pencil number P1582
The following lot was formerly inTHE PITT RIVERS MUSEUM, FARNHAM, DORSET
A Sassanian bronze 'molar' flask on four feet, with incised shoulder and incised scrolls on the faceted neck -- 2½in. (6.4cm.) high, 9th-10th Century A.D.; a Palaeolithic flaked flint tool -- 2¾in. (7cm.) long, 6th-5th millennium B.C., from Amrah; a painted pottery bird -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) long; and another, smaller -- 1½in. (3.7cm.) long (4)
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A Sassanian bronze 'molar' flask on four feet, with incised shoulder and incised scrolls on the faceted neck -- 2½in. (6.4cm.) high, 9th-10th Century A.D.; a Palaeolithic flaked flint tool -- 2¾in. (7cm.) long, 6th-5th millennium B.C., from Amrah; a painted pottery bird -- 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) long; and another, smaller -- 1½in. (3.7cm.) long (4)