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Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bronze Patrix Die with God and Drinking Horn Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bronze Patrix Die with God and Drinking Horn Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bronze Patrix Die with God and Drinking Horn
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LOT 1798

Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bronze Patrix Die with God and Drinking Horn

4TH-5TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/8 in. (7.62 grams, 37 mm).

Modelled in the half-round, advancing figure with bent legs and holding a drinking horn.

Provenance

From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Sedov, B.B., Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhi Srednevekovija, Moscow, 1987, plate XCVIII, for similar examples.

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LOT 1798

Scandinavian Pre-Viking Bronze Patrix Die with God and Drinking Horn

Estimate £700 - 900€810 - 1,040 (for guidance only)$950 - 1,220 (for guidance only)

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