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LOT 0660
Greek Gold Ring with Stylised Warrior
3RD-2ND CENTURY B.C.
3/4 in. (1.27 grams, 20.44 mm overall, 18.90 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)).
Narrow butted hoop, lentoid bezel with low-relief figure in profile standing with sword and shield raised.
ProvenanceAcquired 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.
Cf. Chadour, A.B., Rings. The Alice and Louis Koch Collection, volume I, Leeds, 1994, item 64, for type.
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