166 PAIR OF MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ARM SPIRALS OF SALGOTARJAN TYPE, named after the treasure findings at Svedlar in eastern Slovakia, with decorative incision work; olivegreen patina. 15th-13th Century BC. Diam. of spiral 4 3/4 in. (12 cm.); total length 8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) Ex German collection. Cf: M. Novotna, ‘The Axes and Hatchets in Slovakia’, Prähistorische Bronzefunde IX 3, 1970, pl. 56, 13.14. Intact and exceptionally well preserved. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XX, 2009, no. 70. For a nearly identical example, see Cleveland Museum of Art, acquisition no.1988.4
167 CENTRAL EUROPEAN EARLY IRON AGE BRONZE PECTORAL, Consisting of two spectacle fibulae joined by seven chains. Hallstatt, 8th-7th Century BC. H. 13 3/4 in. (35 cm.) Ex English private collection, acquired in the 1990s. Intact. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XIX, 2008, no. 173.
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