LOT 1210 Roman Cockerel Mirror Frame
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2nd-4th century AD. A lead-alloy cockerel mirror frame, votive and apotropaic, suspension ring on the top. 19.8 grams, 60mm (2 1/4"). Property of a London lady; from her family collection formed in the 1970s. 'The mirror frames were made of lead not only because it was cheap and easy to shape (mirror frames were moulded in matrix), but also because the colour and the weight of lead traditionally associated it with the underworld and with magic. Lead was commonly used for curse tablets in the Latin west, but these are usually considered Âmagical rather than votive, so there is possibly some more thinking to be done here about choice of material, and whether lead must always = ÂmagicalÂ, and by extension whether that also = ÂvotiveÂ. (quoted from https://thevotivesproject.org/2018/03/15/mirrors/"). [No Reserve]
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