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LOT 0892
Roman Bronze Fly Brooch
4TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 in. (1.9 grams, 19 mm).
With ribbing at the neck and delineation of the wings; catchplate to the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LiteratureSee Strokov, A.A., ‘Two-chamber vaults of the Cimmerian Bosporus in the Migration Period’ in Rácz, Z., Szenthe, G., Attila’s Europe, structural transformation and strategies of success in the European Hun Period, Budapest, 2021, fig.9, no.9.
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