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LOT 0825
Roman Coloured Glass Bracelet Group
CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 - 2 1/8 in. (14.3 grams total, 42-55 mm).
Comprising one round-section in deep blue, one similar in deep red, and a D-section in pale blue/turquoise. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFormerly with a Bournemouth gentleman.
Ex Essex collection.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
Cf. Ivleva, T,, 'The origin of Romano-British Glass Bangles: Forgotten Artefacts from the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age' in Britannia, 2020, pp.1-46, fig.3, for similar.
FootnotesBangles did not occur in a vacuum after the Roman invasion but were an integral part of globalising networks of cross-Channel trade and connections with the European mainland in the early first century A.D. According to J. Price bangles were first developed in southern Britain in the late Claudio-Neronian period (A.D. 43–65/70) and that in subsequent periods the craft of bangle-making quickly spread further north with the advance of the Roman army.
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The principal parts of a lamp were the body or reservoir which contained the oil (infundibulum); the flat circular top (discus) on which the design, if any, was placed, sometimes with an ornamented rim (margo), the nozzle, with a hole for the insertion of the wick (rostrum, nasus, myxus), the wick, known as ellydinium, the handle (ansa, manubrium).
