Lot 117
  • 117

A Group of Antiquities , circa 2000 B.C.-300 A.D.

Estimate
1,600 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • A Group of Antiquities
comprising a pottery jug with pointed base, Bronze Age, northern Israel, circa 19th century B.C., a Hellenistic pottery jar with twin handles, circa 4th century B.C., a Byzantine clay oil lamp, a Roman blue-green glass unguentarium, a Roman terracotta head of a youth, a terracotta bust of a woman, Magna Graecia, circa early 5th Century B.C., a Greek bronze figure of a bull with short stout legs and long muzzle, circa 7th Century B.C., a Roman fragmentary bronze steelyard and chain; together with an amber head of 19th or 20th century origin.

Provenance

the first five acquired in Israel
Barakat Antiquities, Jerusalem, for the terracotta head and glass unguentarium
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, May 19th, 1979, nos. 177 and 190, for the bust of a woman and the bull
Christie's, London, November 17th-18th, 1977, nos. 385 and 413, illus., for the amber head and steelyard