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Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
CIRCA 5TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
5/8 in. (0.97 grams, 16 mm).
Formed of sheet-gold with applied loop, a small pearl enclosed within the calyx.
PROVENANCE:
From the collection of a late Japanese collector, 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. for similar gold beads in Marshall, F.H. Catalogue of the jewellery, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, in the department of antiquities, British Museum London, 1911, pl.XXIII, nos.1450,1458.
FOOTNOTES:
Fruit were generally considered to be a symbol of sensuality, temptation and fertility; the giving and accepting of fruit may be regarded as a symbolic sexual act, or at least a prelude to marriage. It follows naturally that the pomegranate, with its innumerable fleshy seeds symbolising life and fecundity, was an attribute of Aphrodite.
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