£4,000 - £6,000
Two silver carinated cups, one fragmentary, Roman or Gandhara, c. late 1st century BC - early 1st century A.D. the plain upper portion waisted above a fluted ovoid bowl, with three parallel lines incised on the interior rim, one with the bottom of the cup intact, 12.7cm
Provenance: Private Collection, England, prior to 1979.
Literature: F. Baratte, East and West: A Central Asian Silver Hoard from the Parthian Era, 2002, pp. 41-42, fig. 21
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