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CIRCA 5TH CENTURY B.C.
Details
A PHOENICIAN BANDED AGATE SCARAB
Circa 5th Century B.C.
The underside engraved with a nude bandy-legged figure, shown frontally with his head turned in profile, with pronounced genitalia and a tail hanging between his legs, holding a floral in each hand, a hatched exergue below, a winged solar disk above, enclosed within a hatched border
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) long
Circa 5th Century B.C.
The underside engraved with a nude bandy-legged figure, shown frontally with his head turned in profile, with pronounced genitalia and a tail hanging between his legs, holding a floral in each hand, a hatched exergue below, a winged solar disk above, enclosed within a hatched border
11/16 in. (1.7 cm.) long
Provenance
European Private Collection, 1980s.