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LOT 0588
Greek Bronze Ram Protome
6TH CENTURY B.C.
(82 grams, 40 mm).
Hollow-formed finial in the form of a ram's head with punched annulet texture detailing.
Provenancewith Herbert A. Cahn, Zurich, Switzerland, 1997.
From a private European collection.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, New York, accession number 51.178, for a comparable head.
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