- Museum number
- 1900,0714.1
- Description
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Gold buckle; circular loop; profiled tongue; circular plate a deep collar containing kidney-shaped chalcedony intaglio fragment depicting Mercury; folded flap attachment with back-plate; peripheral domed-head attachment rivets.
- Production date
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1stC-2ndC (intaglio)
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425-455 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 4.80 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS)
Provenance:
unprovenanced (Egger 1890); found in Hungary (Egger Coll. 1891); found at Tolnau (Annual Returns for 1900 04, p. 74); said to be from Tolna, Tolna-megye (Smith 1923); found in Hungary (Register)
Purchased:
From Adolf Roger of Budapest; acquired by Hallam at sale of Egger Collection held by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London, 25th 26th June, 1891
Ex collection:
Dr Samuel Egger of Budapest, who acquired it c. 1889
Published:
EGGER S. 1890. Versammlungen und Vorträge, Prähistorische Blätter II, no. 2, Munich, p. 28
EGGER COLL. 1891. Catalogue of the Important Collection......Formed by the Late Dr S. Egger, of Vienna which will be Sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, June 25th. London, p. 24 lot 201, pl. XXVI:201
BALDWIN BROWN G. 1915. The Arts in Early England IV Saxon Art and Industry in the Pagan Period. London, p. 348, pl. CXLIII:5
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, pp. 152, 157, pl. XV:7
ALFÖLDI, A. 1932. Funde aus der Hunnenzeit und ihre ethnische Sonderung, Arch Hung IX. Budapest, p. 61 note 131
VON JENNY W.A. and VOLBACH W.F. 1933. Germanischer Schmuck des frühen Mittelalters. Berlin, p. 44, pl. 25:8
KISS A. 1970. Unpublished finds from the V. Century originated from Transdanubia in the British Museum and the Janus Pannonius Museum of Pécs, A Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve XIV-XV for 1969-70, Pécs, p. 123, pl. I:6
KALTOFEN A. 1984. Studien zur Chronologie der Völkerwanderungszeit im südöstlichen Mitteleuropa, BAR International Series 191. Oxford, p. 302 no. 317
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2009 11 Dec-2010 10 May, Madrid, Canal de Isabel II, Treasures of the World's Cultures
2009 May-Sept Canada, Victoria, 'Treasures: The World's Cultures from the British Museum'
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1900,0714.1
