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Scent bottle 14 – Kuban region, Ust-Labinskaya st., 1st-2nd century. Gold, garnet [d/b]

Ust-Labinskaya stanitsa [Kuban region], barrow No. 42, burial date 1st-2nd century.

Gold and garnet.
Height 4.4 cm, diameter 3.2 cm, weight 33.68 g.
The State Hermitage, inv. 2239

“The lower part of the body is decorated with five garnet inlays in almond-shaped setlines. On top of the lid there is a single big cast of an oval shape with a secondarily-used garnet intaglio, representing the head of Zeus wearing a laurel wreath.” [Treister]