A GROUP OF GOLD AMULETS AND JEWELLERY

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A GROUP OF GOLD AMULETS AND JEWELLERY
Comprising a gold mounted Egyptian cornelian wedjat-eye amulet, 1.9cm. long; a glazed composition lotus column capital, in later gold mount, 2.4cm. high; a sheet gold Tueris amulet, 1.7cm. high, mainly Late Period (712-332 B.C.); a pair of Hellenistic gold animal-headed earrings, with long curving horns, 3rd Century B.C., 1.6cm. long max.; a Bactrian(?) gold hoop earring with camel and rosette pendants, 4.6cm. long; another gold hoop earring with chain threaded with an ankh-sign and three (recent) pearl drops, 10.2cm. long; a Roman sheet gold amulet of Aphrodite Anadyomene, 2.2cm. high; two sheet gold rings, one with traces of a repoussé figure; a gold disc showing a repoussé head in profile; and a gold lentoid bead with fluted leaf-like design and filigree border, all circa 2nd Century B.C./2nd Century A.D. (12)

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