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LOT 0251
Achaemenid Solid Gold Bracelet
5TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
2 7/8 in. (42.88 grams, 73 mm).
Penannular in form and round in section with clubbed ends, three incised gussets below each finial.
Provenance
From the collection of Contessa L.G., assembled in the 1980s.
Private collection, acquired in Switzerland in 1999.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13200-249217.
Literature
Cf. Schmidt, E.F., Persepolis II, Contents of the Treasury and other discoveries, Chicago, 1957, pl.46, no.4.
Footnotes
The bracelet resembles a specimen found in Persepolis, in the Treasury, room 65, made from plain bronze wire. If the Achaemenid bracelets are characterised by their extremities shaped like goats or other wild animals, simpler gold bracelets existed, used abundantly by children and women, and also by royal courtiers and even slaves.
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