Details
LOT 3264
Kingdom of Axum, Wazena (Ella Gabaz) AE Unit. Circa AD 550-570.
Draped bust to right, wearing head cloth, holding wheat stalk topped with cross; Ge'ez legend "May this please the peoples" around / Cross crosslet with gilt punch holed centre crossed by oblique cross; Ge'ez legend "of Wazena, of the King" around. SACAM 391; H 70; Munro-Hay Types 118-123. Near Very Fine. Pierced.(1.26gr, 17mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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