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LOT 0140
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.
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