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Back to previous pageCIRCA 530-330 B.C.
1 7/8 in. (26.73 grams total, 4.7 cm each).
Each with bifacial repoussé decoration depicting the Egyptian god Bes controlling two ibexes, above them two geese or storks facing stylised lotus flowers, projecting knops to the perimeter, four loops to the inner edge. [2]
PROVENANCE:
with Riyahi Gallery, London, prior to 1996.
Private collection, Switzerland, acquired from the above, 1 July 1996.
Acquired from the above, 23 December 2010.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate, no 5068.C.V.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Curtis, J. and Tallis, N. (eds), Forgotten Empire: The world of Ancient Persia, London, 2005, p.145 no.177, for a near-identical gold earring, reputedly from Syria, now in The Louvre Museum, Paris, Department of Oriental Antiquities, inventory number AO 3171.
