Achaemenid Gold Inlaid Silver Birds Pendant. 6th-4th century BC. A bifacial silver pendant shaped as two facing birds or ducks, with gilt eyes and body with two miniature versions of the pair, reverse with two single standing birds with gilt eyes, feather detailing around, ribbed sphere below with vertical rows of gilt circles, triangular foot and tubular suspension loop.See The British Museum, museum number 1994,1004.1, for a bird's head similar in style to that of the birds decorating the body of the pendant offered here.64 grams, 75mm (3"). From a private family collection formed in London from the mid 1980s-early 1990s; this lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by AIAD certificate number no. 10654-174194.