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LOT 0862
Achaemenid Silver Ring with Warriors
7TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
1 in. (4.12 grams, 25.84 mm overall, 21.41 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)).
With scaphoid bezel, incuse image of an armoured warrior with shield and spear, a horseman and a hatched gate or wall.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 25, for similar type.
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