1st-2nd century AD. A funerary mouthpiece of elliptical form with attachment holes at either end, decorated with punched lines creating a waving ornamentation on the surface. See Dieudonné-Glad, N., Feugère, M., Önal, M., Zeugma V. Les objets (Travaux de la Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, 64), Lyon 2013D; Zhuravlev, D., Gold mouth-pieces from the necropolis of Tauric Chersonesos (collection of the State Historical Museum) =??????? ??????? ???????? ?? ????????? ????????? ????????????’, ???????? ???????????????? ????????????? ?????, 2017, pp.231-241, n.13. 9.3 grams, 86mm (3 1/4"). Property of a gentleman from Vienna; from his private collection formed since 1970. This kind of sheet was intended to cover the mouth of the deceased. There are normally perforations for fixing laces at each end, and the surface can be decorated with embossing or punched dots or other ornament. Golden mouth-pieces were widely used by Macedonians and Thracians and still employed during the Roman Period. Similar pieces from that age are attested in the graves of the necropolis of the Tauric Chersonesus, but also in the Roman Gaul (Montagrier, Aux Maynes), Mesopotamia and Osroene (Zeugma"). [No Reserve] For this specific lot, 5% import VAT is applicable on the hammer price