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LOT 0140

Sold for (Inc. bp): £975

ROMAN BRONZE OPENWORK EAGLE PHALERA
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (41.6 grams, 55 mm).

With thick circular rim, openwork design with median perching eagle on a column, head turned, flanked by a laurel frond and vexillum; two attachment studs to reverse.

PROVENANCE:
UK private collection before 2000.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a London gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

LITERATURE:
See Bishop, M.C., Coulston, J.C.N., Roman Military Equipment, from the Punic Wars to the Fall of Rome, London, 2006, figs. 9,10, for decorative baldric appliqués.

CONDITION
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