159 CYPRO-GEOMETRIC POTTERY VASE On either shoulder, a snake between two birds. A rare type. 7th-6th Century BC. H. 4 3/8 in (11.1 cm.) Ex C. Perlman, Brookline, MA, acquired by his mother in Athens in 1952; J.M.E. collection, N.Y., acquired in March 2008. 160 IBERIAN SMALL BRONZE HORSE AND RIDER Horse standing alert, rider holding its mane. The horse with large dotted circle eyes; both with cross-hatching details. 10th-6th Century BC. H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) Ex J. J. Klejman (1906-1995), New York; Heyward Cutting, New York; J.M.E. collection, New York, acquired at Sotheby’s, New York in December 2000. 161 BYZANTINE BRONZE ENKOLPION DECORATED IN RELIEF WITH THE CRUCIFIXION Obverse: tabula ansata with four Greek letters, surrounded by four medallions with the vignettes of Nikolaus, the mother of God, St.George, under the cross arms inscriptions in Church Slavonic (”The cross is our consolation. The cross is our fame”). Reverse: Mother of God, etc. Rare; 8th known example. 10th-12th Century AD. H. 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) Ex German collection, Nuremberg, acquired ca. 1980. 162 BYZANTINE BRONZE ENKOLPION: ARCHANGEL MICHAEL incised with a depiction of the archangel Michael, his hands raised in adoration, his name written above. 10th-12th Century AD. H. 4 1/8 in. (10.7 cm.); w. 2 1/4 in. (5.8 cm.) Ex German private collection, Nuremberg, acquired 1980.
163 IBERIAN HELLENISTIC PARCEL GILT SILVER GOBLET The bowl is a hemisphere attached to a separately made conical foot, flattened at the edges with incised vertical elliptical decoration; the bowl with a gilded band around the lip with incised foliate scrolls. 3rd - 2nd Century BC. H. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.); Diam. 4 in. (10 cm.) Ex German private collection, acquired in the 1990s. 164 HELLENISTIC SILVER KYATHOS (LADLE) The long handle terminating in a swan’s neck and head; at the griffe of the handle a volute in the round. 4th-3rd Century BC. L. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) Ex German private collection near Munich, acquired between 1991 and 2005. Cf. Silver for the Gods, Toledo (1977), p. 46, no. 15. 165 HELLENISTIC SILVER GILT MEDAL WITH PROFILE OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT as Zeus Ammon; within a beaded border. Reverse: A boar standing. 3rd -2nd Century BC. Diam. 7/8 in. (2.3 cm.) Ex private German collection, acquired in the 1990s. Based upon the coinage of Lysimachos. 166 ROMAN OPENWORK SILVER TRISKELE PHALERA WITH DOLPHINS Of circular open-work design with three conjoined dolphins leaping amid stylized waves. 3rd Century AD. Diam. 3 in. (7.6 cm.) Ex private German collection, acquired in the 1990s.
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