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LOT 0658
Roman Bronze Horse-Heads Plate Brooch
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (14.8 grams, 40 mm).
Formed as four profile horseheads emanating from a central roundel; each head with a ring-and-dot eye and chevron mouth, and incised borders to the neck; to the reverse, the pin and catchplate. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the early 1990s.
Ex Property of a Cambridgeshire Gentleman.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
Literature
Cf. Petcu, R., Swastika-shaped fibulae with horse-head decorations (Almgren 232) from the Roman period in Dobrudja (Moesia Inferior), in Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 25(1); pp.113-122, fig.4.
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