CNG 103, Lot: 1268. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Gold beads in the shape of cowrie shells. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, circa 220-100 BC. Ten beads, all hollow-formed with central opening.
Each approx. 7x10mm; total weight: 3.82g. A dusting of earthen deposits. Several very minor dents.
From the collection of the Hadji Baba Museum, Old City, Jerusalem, Israel.
A necklace of similar cowrie shells strung together with gold wire is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum (M. Pfrommer, “Hellenistisches Gold und ptolemaeische Herrscher,” Studia Varia from the J. Paul Getty Museum 2. Occassional Papers of Antiquities 10 [2001], p. 101, fig. 13 = M. Pfrommer, Greek Gold from Hellenistic Egypt. Getty Museum Studies of Art, Los Angeles [2001], p. 61, fig. 36).
