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| VISIGOTHIC BRONZE FIBULA WITH CABOCHON ALMANDINE GARNETS Incorporating a half-circle headplate with spoked grooves and five projecting knobs, arched bow with pronounced central ridge, long pointed footplate decorated with grooves with geometric chip-carved motifs. Cf. J. Werner, ‘Studien zu Grabfunden des V Jahrhunderts aus der Slovakai und der Karpatenukraine’ SLA, 1959, p. 427-431. Later 5th Century AD L. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) Art of the Ancient World, 2007, no. 187 GMU42 $2,750 Sales |
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| See also: A. Aibabin, “Ethnischegeschichte der Fruhbyzantinischen Krim”, 1999, p. 309, table XXV, 10; R. Herzog, A. Koller, Die Alamannen, Stuttgart, 1997, p. 189. | |
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