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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman hippocampus brooch dating to the second century AD. The brooch is complete but is missing its enamel. A hippocampus is a seahorse-type creature, half horse half fish. The brooch depicts this creature with the head of a horse and a curled, scaled fish-like or mermid-like tail. On the front of the brooch there are four triangular or lozenge-shaped panels and four circular recesses, including one for the eye, that would have held coloured enamel but this is now all absent. On the reverse of the brooch is the intact but squashed double-lug pin mount, the copper alloy pin and the catchplate. Hippocampus brooches are not common finds and only one other complete exampe has been recorded on this database (LEIC-C88725), with two possible fragmentary brooches also recorded.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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