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LOT 0516
Parthian Green-Glazed Amphora
3RD CENTURY B.C.-2ND CENTURY A.D.
11 3/4 in. (1.67 kg, 30 cm high).
With broad columnar neck and everted rim, angled strap handles, vertical ribbing to the shoulder and body, bands of applied scooped discs to the handle and equator, feathered panels. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Hani Farsi collection, London, UK.
Acquired Christie's, King Street, London, circa 1990.
Ex central London gallery.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the Yale University Art gallery under accession number 1938.4835, from the excavations at Dura-Europos.
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