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LOT 0181

Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640

ROMAN AGATE HEAD OF A GROTESQUE
1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (41.5 grams, 44 mm).

Carved in the round with carinated profile, grotesque head with pierced nose furnished with a small gold ring; later added nose piercing.

PROVENANCE:
From the 'S' collection, acquired 1970-1990s.
The collection was seen and studied by W.G. Lambert, late Professor of Assyriology at the University of Birmingham, 1970-1993.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

CONDITION
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