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LOT 1058
Seljuk Gold Ring with Inscription
12TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 in. (3.04 grams, 17.36 mm overall, 15.15 x 14.79 mm internal diameter (approximate size British H, USA 3 3/4, Europe 6.18, Japan 6)).
With facetted shoulders, scaphoid bezel with three lines of Kufic text.
Provenance
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
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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