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LOT 0021

Gold Pendant with Agate Scaraboid

5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.

7/8 in. (4.20 grams, 21 mm).

Banded agate scaraboid with openwork gold frame, tubular suspension loop, triangular clusters of granules to the edge; Phoenician or Achaemenid.

Provenance

Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

CONDITION

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LOT 0021

Gold Pendant with Agate Scaraboid

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170

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