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LOT 0732
Roman 'Essex' Bronze Lion Brooch
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (8.13 grams, 36 mm).
Plate brooch formed as a leaping lion with hatched mane; pin-lugs and catch to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Essex, UK, in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex collector.
Literature
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1193.
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