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LOT 0707
Roman Gemstone with Hound
2ND-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1/2 in. (0.95 grams, 13 mm).
Ellipsoid carnelian gemstone with intaglio hound running on a baseline; supplied with a museum-quality impression.
ProvenanceFrom a Swiss collection, 1980s onwards.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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Roman Lead Coffin Panel with Sphinx, Medusa and Dolphins
2nd-3rd century A.DSold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
Decorated with a high-relief pattern comprising sphinxes surrounded by dolphins and masks of Medusa surrounded by laurel leaves all between Corinthian columns; ropework and floral border strips with laurel leaves above and lip below the upper edge. 13.65 kg, 80 cm
Acquired 1970s-early 1990s. Property of a North American collector. London collection, 2016. -
Roman Bronze Double Axe-Shaped Plate Brooch
2nd century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
With vertical spine and peltoid lateral extensions with silvered surface, enamelled annular motif to the centre of each; pin and catchplate to the reverse. 10 grams, 42 mm
UK art market, acquired prior to 1980. Property of a Kent lady collector. -
Roman Terracotta LEG I ITAL Legionary Stamped Tile
Late 1st century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
A rectangular block with stamped mark 'LEGT I ITAL' (Legio I Italica) for 1st Legion 'Italic'; with collector's label 'Roman brick made by the Ist Italica Legion at Olpia Oescus on the lower Danube, one of Trajan's strategic bases prior to the invasion of Dacia in 106 AD. LEG I ITAL' 4.35 kg, 19 cm
From the collection of a late East Anglian teacher and antiquarian who retired to the Isle of Wight in Hampshire, UK. He amassed a large collection of objects between the 1960s-1980s. Accompanied by a previous catalogue identification card.
The Legio I Italica ("of Italy") was a Roman legion formed by Nero on September 20, 66 or 67 AD and active until the 5th century AD. Its emblems were the boar and sometimes the bull. There are many sources which name army officials employed in supervision of the construction and reconstruction of temples, baths, city walls, towers and gates. CIL VIII 2728, for example, is a letter by evocatus Augusti who was sent to solve engineering problems on a badly surveyed aqueduct at Saldae in the province of Numidia. Pliny (Epistulae X 17b, 39, 41, 61) repeatedly requested an army architect to be sent from Lower Moesia to help inspect some Bithynian building projects. Therefore it is not strange that tiles marked as belonging to a legion should be found all over the provinces.
