Details

LOT 0995

Assyrian Bronze Arm and Hand Type Brooch

CIRCA 7TH-5TH CENTURY B.C.

4 x 4 in. (186 grams total, 10 x 10.3 cm including frame).

The bow decorated with circumferential grooves, one arm ending with the partially preserved wire coil; the catchplate in the form of a hand engraved with an X; accompanied by a display frame with information ticket. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Ex Robin Symes Gallery, London, UK, 1990s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. Curtis, J., An examination of late Assyrian Metalwork with special reference to Nimrud, Oxford-Oakville, 2013, pl.LXXXVIII.

Footnotes

Fibulae with triangular bows (type 3 of Curtis classification) were the most common in Assyria. At least 66 bronze examples have been found at Nimrud, 32 in the graves and tombs at Ashur, 14 at Kouyunjik (some of them represented only by fragments), three at Nebbi Yunus, six at Khorsabad, three at Sharif Khan, all fragmentary, and single examples at Tell Billa and Tell al Rimah.