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LOT 0597
Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Seal Box
CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (7.22 grams, 31 mm).
Lozengiform two-part container with grid to the obverse, enamel fill to the cells. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Literature
Cf. Beutler, F. et al., Der Adler Roms. Carnuntum und der Armee der Cäsaren, Bad-Deutsch Altenberg, 2017, items 617-62.
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