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S-Shaped Brooch

Unknown Artist

With sinuous, asymmetrical designs and swirling arrangements of commas, circles, and fan shapes, this varied group of objects conveys the pervasiveness of a Celtic aesthetic in the Empire's western provinces in the first centuries A.D.

Credit: Gift of Alastair Bradley Martin, 1991

2nd-3rd century

Bronze

4.0 x 2.6 cm

1991.279

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