African & Oceanic Art | Antiquities - 8th June 2021
Lot 37
A Palmyra terracotta tessera
Estimate £150 - £250 | Hammer £300
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Description
A Palmyra terracotta tessera
circa 3rd century AD
ticket to a sacred banquet, one side with two busts and crossed palm branches and the other with a bust and Aramaic text,
3cm wide,
a clay tablet with two figures above a sun burst, the top pierced for attachment, 3.5cm high, a Sumerian shell cylinder seal, with remains of linear decoration, 1.7cm long, a Mesopotamian stone cylinder seal, four bronze fibulae, Bronze Age, including one finely coiled and ribbed, 6.5cm long, a navicella-type, 4.5cm long, a stylised sea monster type, 3.6cm long, a plain type, 4.8cm long and a bronze annular brooch with incised letters, 1.5cm diameter. (9)
Provenance
George and Florangel Lambor Collection.