Silver Roman Bracelet

A Roman Silver bracelet, most likely Circa 2nd century AD, Each silver hoop is rectangular in section, gradually narrowing to a flat strip, with the overlapping ends further reducing to wires with various decorative markings. These wires are round in section, coiling back around the hoop and ending in a spiral.

A Type I, Variant 2 Roman bracelet with an circular hoop, open-end fastened, made oof a thick plate with a concave outer surface decorated with numerus markings arranged is various designs with thinned outs at the ends to form a rounded tetrahedral wire to overlap the paralleled side to form a decoration of two horizontal spirals with four coils. These decorative spirals are a revival of the earlier Hellenistic traditions in ancient Roman Jewelry, with some of the earliest examples coming out of Apollonia in the 3rd Century BC. Very similar bracelets have been known from the Dacian treasures from Sioera, Senereus, Feldioara and Poiana, all being dated from periods between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, as well as from the Kerch necropolis around 1st-2st AD. Other Reliably dated silver bracelets from the 2nd century from the Bazaurt Treasure, as well as numerous gold versions as well.

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