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LOT 0163
Roman Gold Hercules Club Amulet
1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (1.1 grams, 25 mm).
Formed as a tapering club with applied granule decoration, suspension loop at the narrow end.
Provenance
Private collection, acquired in the late 1980s-early 1990s; thence by descent.
Literature
Cf. similar item in the British Museum, London, accession number 1981,0201.29, in Johns, C.M., Potter, T., The Thetford Treasure. Roman Jewellery and Silver, London, 1983, no.29.
Footnotes
A similar object formed part of the remarkable hoard of late Roman gold jewellery and silver tableware found near Thetford, Norfolk, in 1979.
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