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LOT 1093
Phoenician Silver Seal with Green Scaraboid Seal
900-800 B.C.
1 in. (3.1 grams, 23 mm).
Carved serpentine plano-convex seal with intaglio of a bireme at sea beneath two opposed birds; set in a silver mount with ropework detailing, and kidney-shaped suspension loop. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s.
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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