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Superb Ornate Enamelled Horse Brooch
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Pre AD 1000 item# 824523 (stock#c291)
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£425.00
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Superb Ornate Enamelled Horse Brooch
2nd Century AD
Superbly modeled example of the horse type brooch, five enamelled circles on the rump, blue at centre with red surrounding, body with four, alternating blue and red, breast, shoulder and neck with series of incised concentric circles, strong forehead and muzzle modeled in the round with wide round eye both sides, tall pointy ears and stylised mane.
A superb example of the type.
In excellent condition, measuring 4cm (W) x 2.5cm (H).
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Roman Bronze Mercury
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Pre AD 1000 item# 818024 (stock#c216)
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£1150
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c. 1st -2nd Century A.D
The naked youth Mercury facing, body aligning slightly right. Left leg bent at knee bearing weight, right leg lengthened raising hip and buttock. Anatomical detail of the torso flows in naturalistic accordance with the alignment of the body, illustrating high level of sophistication; chlamys with luxurious folds draped over left shoulder and arm, money purse in left hand (Mercury, not only messenger to the gods but also god of business and commerce). Svelte facial feat ...click for details
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Roman Bronze Phallic Pendant
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Pre AD 1000 item# 793164 (stock#c136)
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£175.00
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1st-2nd Century A.D
Robust phallic pendant, twin arms with clenched fist termini right, phallus termini left, large suspension hole. The phallus constituting the most potent fertility symbol, the clenched fist symbolising the might of Rome. In excellent conditon, measuring 4.7cm (H) x 6cm (W).
For similar cf. Museo De Jaen, Spain 166
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Roman Bronze Phallic Pendant
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Pre AD 1000 item# 791654 (stock#c124)
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£65.00
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c. 1st-3rd Century A.D
Robust phallic pendant, considered to imbue its wearer with fertility and health, constituting one of the most common and trusted amulets during the Roman period. Phallic symbolism plays a very important role in the religious and superstitious beliefs of antiquity; because of its connection with the fortune-bringing fertility cults.
In superb condition, measures 3.5cm (L).
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Superb Mithras Applique with Silver Inlaid Eyes
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Pre AD 1000 item# 786546 (stock#b522)
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£675.00
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1st Century A.D
"They likewise offered strange sacrifices; those of Olympus I mean; and they celebrated certain secret mysteries, among which those of Mithras continue to this day"
Plutarch, Life of Pompey 24
Superbly modeled frontal facing youthful head of Mithras with lips slightly parted and silver inlaid light reflecting eyes, the contrast between light and dark being of fundamental importance within the Mithraeum, head of thick curly locks surmounted by Phrygian cap w ...click for details
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