Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/578
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    303 A marble Bracket, carved as achild’s chubby face smiling, with locks of hair protruding from under an ornamental cornice, 6 in. high 304 A Roman marble Grotesque Head ; and two carved Fragments of the Forum Romanum; found during the excavations in 1875 (3) 305 <A Greco-Pheenician Cista of hard pottery, on the front in relief, four Greek soldiers fighting ; the Cover from another cista is of a recumbent man, 112 in. high by 12 in. by 6 in. (2) 306 Three bronze Statuettes; from Roman excavations ; 34 in. to 44in. (3) 307 Nine Pieces of Bronze ; a pottery Lamp; and a Piece of Stone GEL Y oy, 308 |An Amulet, of blood-stone, decorated on both sides, on one o is ¥% . side an animal-headed god, with sceptre and palm, and two 1 ML nn smaller figures; on the other side, a winged figure standing : on the back of a lion; magical inscriptions on both sides, “Tad, ABLANA THANALBA,” etc. ; late Roman period, from — Thebes Se 309 An Amethyst, engraved with a portrait bust of Pindar, in- scribed ‘“PINDAROS” and “ Evopos EPO (1EI)” ; from the Poniatowski collection, no. 2531; modern The Property of DZ. H. Lawrence, Lsq., Fs.A. 310 A gold Head of Apollo, nearly an inch high, with elaborate hair, the head is hollow, and has been beaten out over a cone, it probably came from a statuette ; Greek work of the Hellenistic period. [PI. Il]
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