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LOT 0417
Phoenician Inscribed Bronze Scaraboid Seal
LATE 1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (3.1 grams, 13.46 mm).
Scaraboid featuring a grooved band across the upper face and an incuse schematic human figure with enigmatic symbols on the underside.
ProvenanceEx London, UK, gentleman, 1990.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Ben-Tor, D., Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections: Egypt and Palestine in the Second Intermediate Period, Fribourg/Göttingen, 2007, pl. 102, no. 36, for a similar schematic figurative representation.
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LOT 0417
Phoenician Inscribed Bronze Scaraboid Seal
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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