Pendant, Ptolemaic and Roman, 2nd-1st cent. B.C. and 3rd-4th cent. A.D

Pendant, Ptolemaic and Roman, 2nd-1st cent. B.C. and 3rd-4th cent. A.D.

H. 4.4 cm. Gold, glass paste, garnet. Within a frame of hammered sheet gold, a relief of blue glass paste in the shape of a temple: stylised uraeus frieze crowned by a sun-disk, supported on two papyrus columns. In the interior of the structure, a standing god. Drop-shaped garnets set in the frame. Pearls, shell inlays, and one garnet teardrop restored; gold sheet slightly damaged. Blue glass relief Ptolemaic, setting Roman.

Provenance: Formerly collection G.F. Reber; formerly in the Collection Marc Rosenberg, Auction, Berlin 1929, no. 98.

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[webkech]

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It makes me quite puzzled and angry too!