拍品 312
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A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD MEDUSA MASK NECKLET, the folded double loop chain terminating in two cylindrical ribbed collars with a hook and eye clasp, the central gold pendant disc decorated with a repoussé head of Medusa, surrounded by a separately attached border, the join concealed by ropework wires, the border with four hollow hemispheres, the disc with some repair, possibly in antiquity, 3rd Century A.D.

细节
A ROMANO-EGYPTIAN GOLD MEDUSA MASK NECKLET, the folded double loop chain terminating in two cylindrical ribbed collars with a hook and eye clasp, the central gold pendant disc decorated with a repoussé head of Medusa, surrounded by a separately attached border, the join concealed by ropework wires, the border with four hollow hemispheres, the disc with some repair, possibly in antiquity, 3rd Century A.D.
13 7/8in. (35.3cm.) long

拍品专文

This is a well-known Romano-Egyptian type, of which some forty specimens have survived. They are also frequently shown on Romano-Egyptian funerary portraiture.

Cf. Marshall, no. 2737, p. 318, pl. LX; Walters, no. 315, pp. 112-113