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| LATE HELLENISTIC BRONZE BUCKLE COVERED IN SHEET GOLD Designed as two circular medalions each with the face of the god Bes in low relief and joined with a central bar. Crete or Cyprus, 1st Century BC - early 1st Century AD L. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) Ex W.N. collection, Wiesbaden, Germany. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 2006, no. 140; J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, 2011, no. 149. Cf. LIMC III, 1986, 111, Bes. Also cf. A. Greifenhagen, Schmuckarbeiten in Edelmetall I,1970, pl. 27, 4-6. Cf. the lion heads in pl. XXXVII of F.H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewelry - Greek, Etruscan, and Roman, British Museum, 1968. CBS14 $14,500 Sales |
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