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LOT 0655

Roman Belt Mount with Chi Rho

CIRCA 3RD-4TH CENTURY A.D.

2 1/8 in. (25.9 grams, 55 mm).

A bronze pentagonal mount with scooped edges, four piercings to accept fixing rivets, hatched band enclosing an incuse Chi Rho christogram. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired in the late 1990s-2000.
Property of an East London gentleman.

Literature

See Bishop, M.C. & Coulston, J.C.N., Roman Military Equipment From the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, London, 1993, p.214, for discussion of the chi-rho symbol as a helmet badge in the later 4th century A.D.

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LOT 0655

Roman Belt Mount with Chi Rho

Sold for (Inc. bp): £156

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