Miscellaneous
Lot 3354 Session 11 (9:30am Thursday) Miscellaneous
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $380
ROMAN PALESTINE, Beit Fajjar, (c.2nd century A.D.), alabaster plaque, deeply carved with a toothed boar standing left on foreground, the reverse carved with the Greek letters A P O, (length 90mm, height 75mm). Some chips, otherwise intact and a rare depiction of a boar.
Ex Pat Boland collection.
With collector's ticket indicating that the piece was uncovered in a grave site at Beit Fajjar. Cited in the Quarterly of the Dept of Antiquities, Palestine, Vol IV, pl.LXXXV.
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