CELTIC SILVER BOAR BOWL MOUNT Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A silver bowl mount figurine depicting the foreparts of the animal - face, forelegs and the bristly mane; behind the tusks, a circular transverse piercing. Silver, 15 grams, 37 mm. Very fine condition. Very rare. Provenance From an old English collection. This item is accompanied by an XRF ancient metal test certificate from Oxford X-ray Fluorescence Ltd. Literature Cf. Green, MJ The Gods of Roman Britain Princes Risborough, 2003, p.8ff. Footnotes The boar was a sacred animal in many parts of ancient Europe, admired for its stubbornness and its dangerous tusks. In the Lexden tumulus (Colchester, Essex) a group of figurines was found, among them a bull and a boar, probably dating to the mid-1st century AD and imported from Gaul.
CELTIC SILVER BOAR BOWL MOUNT Circa 1st century BC-1st century AD. A silver bowl mount figurine depicting the foreparts of the animal - face, forelegs and the bristly mane; behind the tusks, a circular transverse piercing. Silver, 15 grams, 37 mm. Very fine condition. Very rare. Provenance From an old English collection. This item is accompanied by an XRF ancient metal test certificate from Oxford X-ray Fluorescence Ltd. Literature Cf. Green, MJ The Gods of Roman Britain Princes Risborough, 2003, p.8ff. Footnotes The boar was a sacred animal in many parts of ancient Europe, admired for its stubbornness and its dangerous tusks. In the Lexden tumulus (Colchester, Essex) a group of figurines was found, among them a bull and a boar, probably dating to the mid-1st century AD and imported from Gaul.
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