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OSTROGOTHIC RADIATE-HEADED SILVER BOW FIBULA With a semi-octagonal headplate with five protruding roundel terminals incised with concentric circles, and impressed and incised zig-zags, chevrons and concentric circles on the headplate. Cf. K. Reynolds Brown et al (eds.), From Attila to Charlemagne; Arts of the Early Medieval Period in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (Yale 2000), no. 17.2, 17.3 & 19.7, p. 190-1 & p. 220. Ex French private collection, acquired in the 1990s. Gepidic culture, Hungary, Early 6th Century AD L. 5 in. (12.7cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 189 BLW110 $3,500 Sales |
