Viking Silver Trade Ingot with Runes 8th-11th century AD A silver ingot, D-shaped in section with rounded ends; two incised runic characters to the end of the flat face comprising a lozenge (old name: Inguz) and a vertical with two angled strokes (old name: fehu). 38 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of a professional collector; acquired before 1990. Literature Cf. Montelius, O. Sveriges Forntid: Atlas I, Stockholm, 1874, plate 177, item 639; Thunmark-Nylén, L. Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II: Typentafeln, Stockholm, 1998, plate 287, item 5; Page, R.I. Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes, Woodbridge, 1998. Footnotes The form of the Inguz rune is very early, predating the Viking period by some centuries. In the Viking period (the Younger Fuþark) the Inguz rune had been deleted and its sound-value taken over by the Kenaz rune alongside that of the Gebu rune.
Viking Silver Trade Ingot with Runes 8th-11th century AD A silver ingot, D-shaped in section with rounded ends; two incised runic characters to the end of the flat face comprising a lozenge (old name: Inguz) and a vertical with two angled strokes (old name: fehu). 38 grams, 12cm (4 3/4"). Fine condition. [No Reserve] Provenance Property of a professional collector; acquired before 1990. Literature Cf. Montelius, O. Sveriges Forntid: Atlas I, Stockholm, 1874, plate 177, item 639; Thunmark-Nylén, L. Die Wikingerzeit Gotlands II: Typentafeln, Stockholm, 1998, plate 287, item 5; Page, R.I. Runes and Runic Inscriptions: Collected Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Viking Runes, Woodbridge, 1998. Footnotes The form of the Inguz rune is very early, predating the Viking period by some centuries. In the Viking period (the Younger Fuþark) the Inguz rune had been deleted and its sound-value taken over by the Kenaz rune alongside that of the Gebu rune.
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