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LOT 1169
Seljuk Bronze Pendant
13TH-14TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (9.56 grams, 45 mm).
Rectangular bifacial plaque with panel above and pierced lug; obverse - advancing lion with rising sun behind, facing warrior with shield in the lug; reverse - four lines of text with numbers and three characters on the lug.
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1994.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.
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.
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