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Silver Votive Ornament
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Parallel sided object of thin sheet silver with numerous areas of grey to black corrosion products adhering. There is a wire loop attached to the end of the left side. The right side is broken away. Eight hammered images in relief are enclosed by a double circuit of twisted ridges. Diagonally oriented parallel ridges radiate out from these twisted ridges to the edge of the object. Hammered or pressed into an intaglio matrix.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Jerome B. Spier
Title: Silver Votive Ornament
Description:
Parallel sided object of thin sheet silver with numerous areas of grey to black corrosion products adhering.
There is a wire loop attached to the end of the left side.
The right side is broken away.
Eight hammered images in relief are enclosed by a double circuit of twisted ridges.
Diagonally oriented parallel ridges radiate out from these twisted ridges to the edge of the object.
Hammered or pressed into an intaglio matrix.
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