Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![98 99 15 large full-faced-head and shoulders of Osiris wearing the atef crown with fillets, and grasping the crook and SCOUTZE sms of which part remains; the face, which is- well-drawn f and expressive, is coloured white; round the neck is a collar of petal-shaped beads; the upper part of the body o is covered with a polychrome network pattern on a deep &¢ JOS 4 pink ground; Ptolemaic or Roman; framed and glazed (E47) Other Properties. GOLD OBJECTS, &c. floral decoration in relief, connected by spirally twisted rods; from Rhodes 2 the neck, decorated with punch work, pellets arranged in three rows round the shoulders of the vessel, below a stellate decoration of deep flutings; Hallstatt period, c. ¢ 900 B.o.; 57n. diam.; found at Argyalfold, near Buda- pesth. ‘The Hallstatt period covers European work of the Iron Age, which is rarely found in gold. [Pl. IT] Greek; one broken, but complete 2 head, gold mounted ; a Sardonyx Cameo, 1? im., with figure Ao / brooch; a Sienna marble Cameo, head of an Emperor to left, laureated, the ground broken and part missing ; and an oval Intaglio, cracked, but complete, a wolf at- tacking a boar | 4 and ten Cameos and Intaglios of various periods VaR](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31650545_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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