The disk consisting of a bitumen core covered in an electrum foil sheet decorated with a central medallion of a facing bearded male head, the center-parted hair with twisted ringlets down both sides. Bulging almond shaped eyes, arching brows merging with the nose are encircled by a band decorated with four reclining goats, all depicted in profile facing the center. Their bodies are stippled, two above and two below, enclosed by thin raised bands incised with a rope pattern; the thick silver backing with four attachment loops. 3-13/16" D (9.7cm). Provenance: Pennsylvania Private Collection. (For an example once in the Schimmel Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a similar facing head surrounded by seven rams, but with only the bitumen core preserved, see number 73 bis in Hoffmann, ed., The Beauty of Ancient Art, The Norbert Schimmel Collection.)
4,500/6,500
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