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77 - HELLENISTIC ANCIENT GREEK GOLD EARRING
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HELLENISTIC ANCIENT GREEK GOLD EARRING EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, C. 3RD CENTURY B.C. worked gold, depicting a ram's head with a perforation going through the face for eyes and large sweeping horns, the collar decorated with a triangular pattern; the hoop emerging from the neck and formed of twisted gold, terminating in a hook, clasped to a loop in the rams' mouth 1.5cm across Provenance: The Property of a Lady; By whom sold Sotheby's, Antiquities, London 13th December 1990, Lot 99 (part); Acquired by Stanley J. Seeger (1930–2011) at the above; Thence by descent. For a similar example, please see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number 74.51.3468.
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