Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World, Volume XXVI - 2015

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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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