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LOT 0092
Agate Cameo with a Portrait of a Hellenistic Ruler
1ST CENTURY B.C.
5/8 in. (0.75 grams, 17 mm).
Detailed bust of a man with his curly hair secured by tainia with the ends hanging behind his neck, aquiline nose and prominent chin, tryphe still visible.
ProvenanceFormerly in a private collection of an European lady, 1970s-1980s.
Private collection, UK.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.13306-257801
Cf. similar portraits in Gołyźniak, P., Engraved Gems and Propaganda in the Roman Republic and under Augustus, Oxford, 2020, figs.979a,980, 981 and 995.
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