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With two cicada hook clasps, decorated with a procession of embossed hippocampus, deer and panthers. The discoloured edging along the belt band shows where a leather lining had once been.

h. 7.5 x w. 79 cm

4th century BC

Bronze

Provenance

Axel Guttmann Collection
Christie’s London South Kensington, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 1, London, 6th November 2002, lot 77
Acquired at Herman Historica, Antiquities from the Axel Guttmann Collection and other Properties, sale 56, Munich, 8th October 2008, lot 56

Publications

Christie’s London, The Axel Guttmann Collection of Ancient Arms and Armour, Part 1, 6th November 2002
Hermann Historica, Auction 56, October 2008, lot 56
M. Burns, "Graeco-Italic Militaria" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 234, fig. 137

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Bronze South Italic Belt

Provenance

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