VILLANOVA BRONZE VOTIVES

VILLANOVA BRONZE VOTIVES
Bronze set of five funerary votives.
Consisting of large shield umbo in two parts; quadruple spectacle fibula, small serpentine fibula, armlet/bracelet and bronze ring with iron decoration.

Ex priv. coll., Netherlands, acquired from Sale Sotheby’s Amsterdam 1989.

Varying sizes, 3 cm-22 cm. 8th cent. BC

Cf. M. Comstock/C. Vermeule, Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes, Boston 1971, nos. 333-4; H.A.G. Brijder e.a., De Etrusken, Amsterdam 1989, p.51, afb. 33