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AN ORDOS GILDED BRONZE OPENWORK BELT PLAQUE
2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
Of rectangular form with rope pattern border, decorated with a horned yak sunk down on its left foreleg, two loops for attachment at the reverse, 2¼ x 1.5/8 in. (5.8 x 4.1 cm.); and eighteen Roman and Phrygian bronze fibulae, including a Romano-British wing and fantail type fibula, the disc with three grooved concentric circles, mid-1st Century A.D., 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) long; an umbonate disc fibula, the dome with inlaid glass sunburst pattern, mid-1st/mid-2nd Century A.D.; a knee brooch with curving head plate and splayed foot, mid-2nd/mid-3rd Century A.D., both 1.3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) long; a gilded bronze circular fibula with central conical glass boss surrounded by a frieze of chased 'S' motif, circa 4th Century A.D., 1 in. (2.6 cm.) diam.; and nine Phrygian fibulae, each with a semicircular bow, some decorated with ribs or bosses, the pin caught in a curved hand-like catch-plate, 8th-7th Century B.C., 3.3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) to 1 in. (2.5 cm.) long, some with pins deficient (19)
