Roman Bronze Weight with Three Goddesses

1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/2 in. (78.7 grams, 38 mm).

Square panel with three figures modelled in the half-round - Isis Fortuna with a rudder, Minerva with a spear, Nona with a drop-spindle; to the reverse, lozenge within a ring with enigmatic 'VIKΠΔ' legend (bungled, for 'LIBRA'?).

Provenance

From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.

Literature

See Gale Brown, H., A study of lead ingot cargoes from ancient Mediterranean Shipwrecks, Vermont, 2011.

CONDITION

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