Lot 3354
Sale 104 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes
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Description
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.
- Estimate
- $300
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $380