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LOT 0340
Viking Age Bronze Fire Steel with Odin and Ravens
10TH CENTURY A.D.
2 3/8 in. (40 grams, 61 mm).
Comprising a rectangular iron block with striking face mounted in a bifacial openwork bronze handle formed as two large ravens perching with necks bent over a central figure.
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. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, pl.144.
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