HELLENISTIC LUNAR PENDANT WITH HERCULES KNOT AND HIGH KARAT GOLD PELLETS

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Ca. 300 - 100 BC. A gold lunar pendant with a beaded outer border and a plain field decorated with a central Hercules knot in applied wire, flanked by paired scrolls, the perimeter with small pellets and the lower tips each finished with a larger boss, with a ribbed suspension loop above. For similar see: E. M. De Juliis, Gli Ori di Taranto in Et? Ellenistica, Cat. 161. Size: 21mm x 29.8mm; Weight: 4.1g Provenance: Private London collection; previously in a German collection formed before the 2000's.

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