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Greek Bronze Jug Handle
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Pre AD 1000 item# 792868 (stock#s116)
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02088821509
£1500.00
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c. 3rd-2nd Century B.C
Bronze jug handle, an unusual example with high arch, one end modelled into features of a horse with open mouth, pointed ears and hogged mane in sharp relief, fore legs constituting point where would have attached to body of jug; Bearded and moustached Dionysian head termini at opposing end, with thick wavy hair, eyes wide and alert.
For other bronze handles cf. Comstock - Vermeule, Boston 1971, C.C., 1971, Cat. no. 419, p.293; Mitten, D.G., and Doeringer, S.F., 1967 ...click for details
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Pair of Greek Spectacle Brooches
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Greek:
Bronze:
Pre AD 1000 item# 784507 (stock#b22)
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02088821509
£950.00
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Late 7th Century B.C
The "Spectacle" type of spirally wound wire with straight connecting link from top of one spiral to bottom of other, originally from Bohemia, Silesia-Poland area between 1200-1100 B.C.
There are four types of Spectacle brooch, this piece constitutes type two, which date from eleventh century, being found in the greatest numbers in Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Italy and Greece, within Greece limited to no further south than Boeotia.
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