11-04-2008, 10:56 PM
Byron, you can see here:
http://www.engramma.it/Joomla/images/65 ... ngulum.gif
http://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/ima ... ngulum.jpg
http://velvet.repubblica.it/fotovideo/a ... 780238/2/5
Doc, the only description is in the first page. Translated:
(...) the sword and the iron objects, fixed to a bronze belt (...)
At the pictures, as Brian notes, is clear that the stamped circular motif is framed by an classical motif: eggs and darts. It's an architectonical wide used motif in friezes, columns, etc. You can see in the right of the pictures posted by me how the frames are independient of the silver plate.
In the top left, where a part of the silver sheet is missing, you can see another "layer" or plate.
The quality of the figures depicted in the central motif, and the fact all are identical proves that there are minted. I want to mean there are made with a mint, as a coin. Repousse, if you prefer, but using a stamp or mint over a semisolid/semirigid surface, as lead, leather, sand, etc...
The fact, noted by Brian, of a "rotation" in the vertical axis of the circular motif is typical of an use of a stamp or mint.
http://www.engramma.it/Joomla/images/65 ... ngulum.gif
http://download.kataweb.it/mediaweb/ima ... ngulum.jpg
http://velvet.repubblica.it/fotovideo/a ... 780238/2/5
Doc, the only description is in the first page. Translated:
(...) the sword and the iron objects, fixed to a bronze belt (...)
At the pictures, as Brian notes, is clear that the stamped circular motif is framed by an classical motif: eggs and darts. It's an architectonical wide used motif in friezes, columns, etc. You can see in the right of the pictures posted by me how the frames are independient of the silver plate.
In the top left, where a part of the silver sheet is missing, you can see another "layer" or plate.
The quality of the figures depicted in the central motif, and the fact all are identical proves that there are minted. I want to mean there are made with a mint, as a coin. Repousse, if you prefer, but using a stamp or mint over a semisolid/semirigid surface, as lead, leather, sand, etc...
The fact, noted by Brian, of a "rotation" in the vertical axis of the circular motif is typical of an use of a stamp or mint.
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