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LOT 0700
Bronze Age to Roman Bronze Artefact Collection
11TH CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 - 4 1/4 in. (45 grams total, 3.6-10.8 cm).
Comprising two arrowheads with foliate head and square-sectioned tang and three awls. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired prior to 2000.
Ex private collection, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Cf. Khorasani, M.M., Arms and Armour from Iran - The Bronze Age to the End of the Qajar Period, Tuebingen, 2006, cat.460, for the arrowheads.
FootnotesThe two arrowheads are similar to specimens found in Luristan. They belong to the type V of the Khorasani classification. The bow was widely used by the Luristan people. The shape of the blade is often flat or ovate in the cross section with lanceolate profile and two cutting edges.
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Roman Silver Denarius Bracelet
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Penannular form with one end wound about the shank, centrepiece a denarius coin with portrait bust. 22 grams, 68 mm
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection, 1990s. -
Roman Carnelian Gemstone with Theatre Masks
1st-3rd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,640
Polished to an oval shape, engraved with eight theatre masks in two rows; one row with three tragic masks in profile, one depicting a satyr, and a tragic mask of an old man shown frontally; the opposing row with a tragic mask of an old man in profile, a Bacchus mask, a mask of a bearded man wearing a cap shown in three-quarter view, and a mask of a young hero facing the centre. 2.51 grams, 22.02 mm
From the collection of a late London, UK, gentleman, 1980s. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12033-214124.
The masks represented seem to be relevant to the typologies of the 'new comedy', an image that appears on cameos and gems since the Augustan era. -
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Roman Bronze Horse Head Whorl Brooch
3rd-4th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Swastika-shaped fibula with horse-head decoration, each head with punched ring-and-dot eye, a similar motif to the centre. 16.7 grams, 45 mm
Acquired before 2000. From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.
In the 3rd century A.D., several examples of fibulae in the shape of four horses’ heads forming a swastika (type Almgren 232) seem to be related to the creation of the Illyrian cavalry corps in Roman army. Many examples of these military fibulae were found in ancient Roman Dacia (Romania), in Roman Illyricum and Moesia.
