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LOT 0558
Cypriot Limestone Relief
3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C. OR LATER
6 1/4 in. (1.67 kg, 16 cm).
Frieze fragment with high-relief profile female bust, wavy hair, exaggerated eye and narrow chin.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1992.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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