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LOT 0101

Sold for (Inc. bp): £780

SCYTHIAN DECORATED GOLD BELL
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
1 7/8 in. (19.47 grams, 48 mm).

Domed with a rolled rim and vent at the apex; decorative band above the rim with reserved lozenges on a pounced field each with an impressed dimple to the centre; cracked to one side.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired early 1990s.
Ex private American collection; thence by descent.
Private Swiss collection since 1998.

LITERATURE:
See Makhortykh, S., Bronze bells of the 7th –6th century BC from the Scythian burial – mounds in the south of Eastern Europe, in СТАРОДАВНЄ ПРИЧОРНОР΄Я, vol.11, Odessa, 2016, for discussion.

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