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LOT 642

Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,610

CELTIC DANUBIAN FIGURAL PLAQUE
(Lead, 90 grams, 92 mm.).

Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A cast lead plaque, rectangular with scrolled top, three rows within a ropework border; in the upper scroll, a fish; in the upper row two human busts and two serpents; in the central row, two armed horsemen advancing towards each other; in the lower row, a hen, an amphora and various geometric motifs.

PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Suffolk, UK; acquired in the 1990's.

CONDITION
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