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LOT 0973
Amlash Bronze Ring Collection
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
7/8 - 1 in. (355 grams total, 23-28 mm).
Mainly with ribbed hoop, disc bezel and radiating spokes with pellets. [31]
Provenancewith a London, UK gallery 1971-early 2000s.
Private collection, London.
See Moorey, P. R. S., Catalogue of the Ancient Persian Bronzes in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971.
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