Balkan Silver Bracelet Group

3RD CENTURY B.C.

2 1/4 in. (29.8 grams total, 58-59 mm).

Each round in section with tapering ends formed into a tight coil. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

UK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Private collection, London, UK.

Literature

Cf. Rustoiu, A., Ferencz, I.V., ‘Late Iron Age in Transylvania (Romania): Material Culture and practices as markers of communal identities’ in Various, Ancient Thrace: myth and reality, The proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Thracology Kazanlak, September 3-7, 2017, Sofia, 2022, pp.303-308, fig.2,2.4, for bracelets in similar style found on human skeletons in Transylvania.

CONDITION

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LOT 1777