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LOT 1353
Western Asiatic Artefact Group
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.-1ST MILLENNIUM A.D.
3/8 - 1 in. (57.6 grams total, 10-24 mm).
Including a ring bezel with robed male facing a leaping wolf; square weight with incised starburst motif; octagonal weight with impressed dots to one face, 13 to the other; ring with lion-mask bezel and other items. [6, No Reserve]
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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