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LOT 0749
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.
ProvenanceEx 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.
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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