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Lot 147 - Auction 66

BACTRIAN AMYGDALOID BANDED AGATE BEAD Central Asia, Oxus Civilization, 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC
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Description

BACTRIAN AMYGDALOID BANDED AGATE BEAD
Central Asia, Oxus Civilization, 3rd - early 2nd millennium BC
length cm 4,5; total weight gr 8,47
A very rare and large amygdaloid bead in precious banded agate, held at either end by two sub-conical gold cabochons. See the specimen from Gonur Depe published in "Margiana. Gonur-depe Necropolis", Fondazione Giancarlo Ligabue, 2002, p. 90.

PROVENANCE
European private collection; acquired before 1993 at the Izmailovsky Market in Moscow.
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