disc brooch
- Museum number
- AF.526
- Description
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Composite disc brooch; upper gold sheet appliqué with repoussé profiled bust and jumbled inscription sometimes read Thautho; applied border a silver strip with nielloed geometric decoration; copper alloy base-plate.
- Production date
- 7thC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 4 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager ‘Summary Catalogue’ (draft MS)
Provenance:
Found at Hinzerath "Am Stumpfen Thurm bei Bernkastel", Kr. Bernkastel Wittlich, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany, 1839, in a small copper carrying-case with hinged lid and silver mounts (Senckler 1848); but questioned by Böhner (1958)
Acquired at sale of Garthe Collection held by J.M. Heberle, Köln (Cologne), 28th May, 1877
Ex collections A. Senckler's father and then Hugo Garthe of Köln (Cologne)
Published:
GARTHE COLL. 1877. Catalog der Kunst-Sammlungen...Verstorbenen Herrn Hugo Garthe.... I. Abtheilung... Versteigerung zu Cöln den 18. Mai 1877... durch J.M. Herberle. Cologne, p. 31, lot 758
SENCKLER A. 1848. Merovingische Fibula, Jahrbücher des Vereins von Alterthumsfreunden im Rheinlande, XII, Bonn, pp. 191-3, pl. V:3;
BÖHNER K. 1958. Die Fränkischen Altertümer des Trierer Landes, 2 vols, Germanische Denkmäler der Völkerwanderungszeit, Römisch-Germanische Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts zu Frankfurt am Main Ser B, Die Fränkischen Altertümer des Rheinlands I. Berlin, vol. I, p. 109, vol. II, p. 41, pl. 17:12
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- AF.526