A Phoenician Gold Shrine Pendant
A Phoenician Gold Shrine Pendant
Circa 7th-6th Century B.C.
Length 1 1/16 inches (2.7 cm); 2.5 dwt.
Property from a New Jersey Private Collection Antiquities & Ancient Art
Provenance:
Art Market, Munich, acquired 24 July 1998.
This pendant shows a schematic vase at the center flanked by two cobras (uraei). For a similar pendant with Egyptianizing shrine scene, see Museo Archeologico Giuseppe Whitaker, Moyta, Sicily (inv. no. 1870); and F.H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewelry, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman in the Department of Antiquities, British Musuem (1969), p. 157, no. 1547, pl. XXV.
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A Phoenician Gold Shrine Pendant
Circa 7th-6th Century B.C.
Length 1 1/16 inches (2.7 cm); 2.5 dwt.
Property from a New Jersey Private Collection Antiquities & Ancient Art
Provenance:
Art Market, Munich, acquired 24 July 1998.
This pendant shows a schematic vase at the center flanked by two cobras (uraei). For a similar pendant with Egyptianizing shrine scene, see Museo Archeologico Giuseppe Whitaker, Moyta, Sicily (inv. no. 1870); and F.H. Marshall, Catalogue of the Jewelry, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman in the Department of Antiquities, British Musuem (1969), p. 157, no. 1547, pl. XXV.
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