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Description : A large group of Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean beads and amulets Late 5th Millennium B.C. - 1st Millennium A.D. and Later Including four Western Asiatic mainly shell disc rings with circle designs, once inlaid, 7.4cm max diam, one damaged, a glazed frit disc with concentric circle designs, 4.9cm diam, a large grey stone pendant carved on one side with a stylised coiled snake, 8.5cm diam, a group of thirteen miniature shell and white hardstone amulets including recumbent bulls, double-headed birds, figures, a human head and a stamp seal, 30mm max, a green stone amuletic figure of a ‘hermaphrodite’ lower torso, 22mm, five black stone heads, busts and figures, 12mm-27mm, a black stone bull’s head pendant and a black stone amuletic bull, 18mm and 20mm, a red stone pendant bird, 27mm, a miniature lapis lazuli bead of a female bust, 11mm, a bone tooth-shaped pendant, 4.4cm, two bone human busts, 20mm max, two hardstone clenched fist pendants, 24mm max and a frit example, 13mm, three hardstone feet pendants, 10mm-25mm, a hardstone bird amulet and an obsidian ‘fly’ amulet, 11mm max, five banded agate beads and pendants, including an amphora-shaped pendant, 19mm high, a lapis lazuli coffee-bean shaped bead and an obsidian coffee-bean shaped bead, 14mm and 22mm, three semi-translucent green stone ‘butterfly’ beads, 29mm max diam, another one attached to its original bronze shaft, 34mm diam of bead, 11.2cm max length, a scallop-shaped pendant, 17mm high, and four other hardstone beads, pendants and seals, a large hardstone pear-shaped pendant with incised cross-hatched design, 4cm high, three fruit-shaped pendants, one in the form of a pomegranate, 20mm, and a green stone pendant with cross-hatched design, 19mm high, eight phallic amulets in hardstone, glass and frit, 10mm – 27mm, an Egyptian blue glazed faience udjat eye, 3cm long, an Egyptian gold bead in the form of an udjat eye, 12mm, four frit and faience amulets of birds and fruit, 18mm max, a group of Roman glass objects including: four Roman glass spindle whorls, six miniature glass aryballoi or jugs, a janiform glass bearded male face bead, 20mm, a dark aubergine glass head pendant of an African, 18mm, three moulded pendants, two with a frog, one with a lion, 23mm max diam and two crescentic glass pendants, 15mm max (a lot) Provenance: Collection of Lady Gloria Dale (1922-2013) London, acquired during the 1960s-1972. Christie's London Antiquities, 30 April 2008, lot 67. UK private collection acquired from the above auction. Exhibited: Some items at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1978. Please refer to department for condition report
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