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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
1ST-4TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 - 2 in. (70 grams total, 36-51 mm).
With painted stripe, swirl and other motifs, supplied with old collector's record card 'Roman Wall Plaster / 4 pieces of painted wall plaster. From St. Albans'. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.
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.
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LOT 0733
Romano-British 'St Albans' Painted Fresco Wall Plaster Fragment Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Lamp-work glass miniature ewer with applied strap handle. 4.19 grams, 29 mm
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Roman Sheet Gold Phalera Covers with Pelta Shields
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Comprising a pair of discoid appliqués with beaded rim and high-relief pelta (military shield) motif, one with the pelta surmounted by a kantharos with a laurel wreath above, the other with vegetal volutes. 6.60 grams total, 61-62 mm
Acquired in the early 1990s. From the collection of a London antiquarian. Accompanied by an academic report by Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
The subject represented on these two appliqués is a crescentic military shield, the so-called pelta, associated in the late Roman iconography with the Amazon female warriors. Many shields of this typology were also represented on the pedestal of the Column of Arcadius in Constantinople (circa 400 A.D.) and seemed to be associated with the heavy cavalry of the Imperial Guard (D’Amato-Negin, 2017, p.252). -
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