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LOT 1370
Umayyad Bronze Inscribed Pendant
7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (7.56 grams, 29 mm).
Rectangular in plan with triangular suspension plaque, obverse with geometric design within a billetted border, reverse with five lines of Kufic script.
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 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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