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Fibula #1 help to ID ???
« on: March 03, 2013, 04:40:18 pm »
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Re: Fibula #1 help to ID ???
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2013, 05:40:23 pm »
Not an exact match but there are two similar brooches with 4 "crescent moons" illustrated in Hattatt #1135 and 1623, 2nd to 3rd century AD. Open work non-enameled discs.  It has the same openwork as yours.  
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Re: Fibula #1 help to ID ???
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 03:04:08 am »
It is a Pelta form of Roman openwork plate fibula.

This is the entry from the wikipage:

Pelta

Typology:  Böhme  47; Genceva 31c

Dates:  c. AD 175-225

Distribution:  German Limes

We had no image yet so I am uploading yours as the image.

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