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LOT 1190
Western Asiatic and Other Bronze Artefact Group
CIRCA 1ST MILLENNIUM A.D. AND LATER
5/8 - 2 in. (76 grams total, 16-52 mm).
Comprising: the body of a bow brooch, a kite-shaped mount with a fish, a beast-head mount or finial, a Late Roman military belt strap end of 'amphora' type; a stamp seal with an ibex, and others. [9]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. for the Late Roman strap end Feugere, M., Tra Costantino e Teodosio (IV-V secolo d.C.). Osservazioni sui militaria di Aquileia’ in Aquileia Nostra Anno LXXXIII-LXXXIV, 2012-2013, tav.VI., no.90.
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LOT 1190
Western Asiatic and Other Bronze Artefact Group
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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From a collection of a Devonshire, UK, gentleman established from the mid 1990s. -
Western Asiatic Bronze Bracelet
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Penannular in form with large polyhedral terminals. 224 grams, 85 mm
Acquired before 1978. Private collection, UK. -
Mesopotamian Cuneiform Tablet Fragment
2nd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
With rounded edges, obverse with an incised grid and dense cuneiform text across about half the available surface; reverse with remains of two columns of text; both ends absent. 95 grams, 61 mm
Specialised collection of cuneiform texts, the property of a London gentleman and housed in London before 1992. Thence by descent to family members. Examined by Professor Wilfrid George Lambert FBA (1926-2011), historian, archaeologist, and specialist in Assyriology and Near Eastern archaeology, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This small collection is exceptional for the variety of types, including some very rare and well preserved examples.
