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LOT 0471
Phoenician Glass Eye Bead Fragments
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (6.9 grams, 15-18 mm).
Glass fragments from spherical beads with eyes within a white panel on black field. [3]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Sangiorgi, G., Collezione di Vetri Antichi, no.254.
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