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A GROUP OF GREEK AND PARTHIAN GOLD JEWELLERY
A GROUP OF GREEK AND PARTHIAN GOLD JEWELLERY
A GROUP OF GREEK AND PARTHIAN GOLD JEWELLERY
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A GROUP OF GREEK AND PARTHIAN GOLD JEWELLERY

CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C. - 2ND CENTURY A.D.

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A GROUP OF GREEK AND PARTHIAN GOLD JEWELLERY
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C. - 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Including a Greek gold and glass appliqué with Herakles club (circa 4th century B.C.); a Greek gold and garnet finger ring (circa 4th century B.C.); and a pair of Parthian gold earrings with face pendants (circa 1st-2nd century A.D.)
Appliqué: 1 3⁄8 in. (3.5 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Parthian gold earrings with face pendants:
Ludwig Marx, Mainz or Albert Sieck, Munich.
Katalog der Sammlungen Ludwig Marx - Mainz, Albert Sieck - München, Dr. F.X. Weizinger & Co., Munich, 28-31 October 1918,
lot 981.
Mobiliar ... bedeutende Kultusgeräte ... Miniaturen und Schmuck ... Waffensammlung ... Waffen, Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 14 June 1950, lot 799.
Ernst (1899-1989) and Marthe (1918-1999) Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne (Inv. no. K 726).
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above, circa 1974; thence by descent to the current owner.

Greek gold and glass brooch and gold and garnet finger ring:
Ernst (1899-1989) and Marthe (1918-1999) Kofler-Truniger, Lucerne, acquired by 1964 (Inv. no. K 726 X).
Private Collection, Lucerne, acquired from the above, circa 1974; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, Zurich, 1964, p. 42, no. 396, pl. 28, no. 396 (brooch and finger ring).
Exhibited
Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung E. und M. Kofler-Truniger, Luzern, 7 June-2 August 1964 (brooch and finger ring).
Further details
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Lot Essay

The Hellenistic gold ring with lentoid cabochon garnet is decorated with two lines of Greek letters separated by a horizontal band, introduced and terminated by a heart-shaped motif to the left and right. They read Θ Α Δ Δ Α and Ο Ν Α Ι Ο - two personal names, each abbreviated to five letters to fit the space available. Thadda could be taken as 'Thaddaeus', in Greek Θαδδαιοϲ. Onaio as Onaios 'Thaddaeus (son) of Onaios'. The owner of the ring.

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