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LOT 0170
Roman Translucent Purple Glass Amphoriskos
CIRCA 4TH CENTURY A.D.
4 1/2 in. (105 grams, 11.5 cm).
Large conical body with a flaring foot, pinched in at the shoulders, a cylindrical neck with a folded rim and two applied handles.
ProvenancePrivate Israeli collection of Mr S.M.
Roman glass from an important London collection, acquired from the early 1980s.
Accompanied by a typed previous catalogue information page with provenance.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.13441-263212.
Cf. Harden, D.B., Glass of the Caesars, Milan, 1987, no.73, for a similar example.
FootnotesA similar specimen, in a different colour, was found in a Romano-Egyptian tomb in Gurop, Egypt, and came into the possession of W.M. Flinders Petrie. Characteristics include two vertical handles, dropped on at the shoulder, bent at right angles to meet the neck bulge and then upwards again in a ring shape.
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LOT 0170
Roman Translucent Purple Glass Amphoriskos
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£800 (EUR 928; USD 1,080) +BP*
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Roman Redware Vessel Sherd with Achilles Riding a Centaur
Circa 4th century A.D.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Fragment from a rim with stepped and everted edge; low-relief profile image of a centaur galloping, ridden by a naked youth (Achilles) holding a rosette in his extended hand; behind, the hand of another figure reaching towards the rosette and in front, the hindlegs of a panther; old collector's label to reverse. 34 grams, 59 mm
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
Roman Bronze Military Diploma Fragment
Circa 129 A.D.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £75
Irregular fragment of a thin tablet engraved with portions of several horizontal lines of Latin capitals, identified as part of the exterior witness list of the second tablet, or tabella II, of a Roman military diploma; the surviving letter groups may be restored as: '[C.] IV[LI …] [L.] PV[LLI …] [P.] AT[TI …]?'. 3.57 grams, 24 mm
Acquired on the European art market. UK, private collection.
This sequence closely parallels the witness list on a diploma fragment in the Museo de Huelva, inventory 10.619, published as a copy of Hadrian’s constitution for auxiliary troops serving in Syria, issued on 22 March AD 129. Published restorations of the witnesses include Gaius Iulius Eutychius, Lucius Pullius Anthus or Daphnus, and Publius Attius Severus. González Fernández and Bermejo Meléndez, Diplomata Militaria del Museo de Huelva. Military diplomas were certified bronze copies of imperial grants recording citizenship, marriage rights and related privileges. -
Eastern Roman Terracotta Bifacial Tablet with Figure, Inscription and Wreaths
Circa 2nd-3rd century A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rectangular in plan with facing bust flanked by rosettes over a panel with Palmyrene inscription to obverse; wreath above two rosettes to reverse. 3.45 grams, 23 mm
From the private collection of a European gentleman (1942-2024), formed since the 1970s.
