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LOT 1453

Eastern Roman Tinned Bronze Composite Belt Mount

8TH CENTURY A.D.

3 5/8 in. (27.9 grams, 93 mm).

Displaying openwork floriate decoration within a tongue-shaped frame; two pierced attachment lugs to the rear.

Provenance

From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Daim, F., Die Awaren am Rand der Byzantinischen Welt (The Avars on the Border of the Byzantine World), Bad Vöslau, 2000, figs.1-2,37,112.

Footnotes

The belt is of composite type, decorated with scrollwork in Byzantine style. Many authors discuss the possibility that these belts were produced in the Eastern Roman capital or that they were made in the workshops of the Avar Khaganate, maybe with Roman matrices for producing sheet ornaments.

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LOT 1453

Eastern Roman Tinned Bronze Composite Belt Mount

Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)

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