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E-Sale 21  31 October 2015
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Lot 315

Estimate: 500 GBP
Price realized: 400 GBP
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Mysia, Kyzikos EL Hekte. Circa 500-450 BC. Winged male mythological creature running-kneeling left, head right, holding tunny by its tail / Quadripartite incuse square. Von Fritze I 123; SNG France 272; Boston MFA 1459; Traité II pl. 175, 38. 2.62g, 11mm.

Good Very Fine, well centred.

From the Mark Christenson Collection.

The figure depicted on this type might perhaps be 'Phobos', the personification of terror, who had a lion's head.
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