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LOT 0749

Sold for (Inc. bp): £195

ROMAN BRONZE PLATE BROOCH
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (10.8 grams, 40 mm).

With horse-head decoration to each arm, each head with punched ring-and-dot eye, and a similar motif to the centre; sheet-silver surface partly absent; catchplate and hinged pin to reverse.

PROVENANCE:
Ex important German collection, 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.

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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