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LOT 0183

Sold for (Inc. bp): £572

ROMAN VOTIVE LEAD MIRROR WITH INSCRIPTION
3RD CENTURY A.D.
5 1/2 in. (100 grams, 14 cm).

Comprising a discoid plate with running scroll border, lentoid-section handle with raised teardrop decoration; applied central reflective disc with Greek inscription to the reverse.

PROVENANCE:
Acquired in the mid 1980s-1990s.
Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent.
Private collection, since the late 1990s.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Spasić Durić, D., Град Виминацијум-The city of Viminacium, (in Serbian), Pozarevac, 2015, fig.78, for similar.

CONDITION
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