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PROPERTY FROM THE LEO MILDENBERG COLLECTION OF ANCIENT ANIMALS
THREE ROMAN BANDED AGATE BIRDS
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Details
THREE ROMAN BANDED AGATE BIRDS
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Including two beads, one a finch and one a swallow, both perforated for suspension; and a quail, its feet missing
Quail: 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long (3)
CIRCA 2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
Including two beads, one a finch and one a swallow, both perforated for suspension; and a quail, its feet missing
Quail: 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long (3)
Literature
A.S. Walker, ed., Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Part III, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, nos. 74 (finch), 76 (quail) & 78 (swallow).
G. Zahlhaas, Aus Noahs Arche, Tierbilder de Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden, Part IV, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, nos. 48 (finch), 49 (quail) & 50 (swallow).
P.E. Mottahedeh, ed., Out of Noah's Ark, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Jerusalem, 1997, nos. 48 (finch), 49 (quail) & 50 (swallow).
G. Zahlhaas, Aus Noahs Arche, Tierbilder de Sammlung Mildenberg aus fünf Jahrtausenden, Part IV, Mainz am Rhein, 1996, nos. 48 (finch), 49 (quail) & 50 (swallow).
P.E. Mottahedeh, ed., Out of Noah's Ark, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Jerusalem, 1997, nos. 48 (finch), 49 (quail) & 50 (swallow).