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Comprising: the majority of a footed goblet, a large glass with a low foot and a wheel-cut decoration, a large fragment of a bulbous bottle, a rim fragment, and a fragment of a foot. 218 grams total, 71-98 mm



Denis Herbette, Paris, Auction 10 November 2024, no.16.

Comprising flat discoid mirror with punched rim and dot-and-ring decoration to the centre, round-section handle with knob finial and volutes at each end of a ledge. 137 grams total, 90-94 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Comprising three with D-section hoop, expanding shoulders and discoid bezel with incised geometric decoration; similar with rectangular bezel and hatched motif; one with D-section hoop and tear-shaped bezel; and other types. 54 grams total, 16-25 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Mixed group of beads, including a green glass teardrop-shaped pendant bead, a large brown discoid glass bead, and others. 43 grams total, 1-20 mm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Comprising the tip of a big toe with nail detailing; hollow-form. 179 grams, 57 mm



From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.

Composed of graduated oblate, annular and other beads with larger beads as a central feature, restrung. 22 grams, 44.5 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Irregular fragment of a thin tablet engraved with portions of several horizontal lines of Latin capitals, identified as part of the exterior witness list of the second tablet, or tabella II, of a Roman military diploma; the surviving letter groups may be restored as: '[C.] IV[LI …] [L.] PV[LLI …] [P.] AT[TI …]?'. 3.57 grams, 24 mm



Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.

This sequence closely parallels the witness list on a diploma fragment in the Museo de Huelva, inventory 10.619, published as a copy of Hadrian’s constitution for auxiliary troops serving in Syria, issued on 22 March AD 129. Published restorations of the witnesses include Gaius Iulius Eutychius, Lucius Pullius Anthus or Daphnus, and Publius Attius Severus. González Fernández and Bermejo Meléndez, Diplomata Militaria del Museo de Huelva. Military diplomas were certified bronze copies of imperial grants recording citizenship, marriage rights and related privileges.

Fragment of a vessel with an advancing tiger with an open mouth on a profiled ground line with finely engraved fur; the shard ending smoothly on the underside and reverse indicating that it might be the edge fragment of a rectangular or polygonal plate (lanx). 40.6 grams, 79 mm



French art market, 2021.

Drum-shaped in profile with stepped rim; repaired. 87 grams, 60 mm



Acquired in the late 1980s. Private collection, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.

Composed of mixed beads, including a large doughnut-shaped bead fragment as a central feature, restrung. 38.6 grams, 36.5 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.

Discoid clay mould with an impressed design of a radiate profile bust on each face. 4.49 grams, 27 mm



London gentleman's collection, 1970-1990s, by descent.

Composed of mixed beads and restrung to a Y-shape. 15.66 grams, 37 cm



Ex London, UK, collection, 1990s.